The Sultanate of Nejd, led by King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, attacked the Kingdom of Hejaz, ruled by King Hussein bin Ali, British ally during World War One.
Flag of the joint kingdom of The Kingdom of Hejaz and Nejd, which would become Saudi Arabia.
Hejaz contained Mecca and the city of Jeddah. Citizens of Jejd had been barred from making the pilgrimage to Mecca, bringing on the war, and the thereby the birth of Saudi Arabia., at least as an immediate causa belli. A more significant one may have been the end of British subsidies to both royal houses, removing restraint on both of them, and in the case of Hejaz, the ability to bribe other Arab principalities.
The Reichstag accepted the London protocol of the Dawes plan.
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