HERE IS WHAT YOU WANT TO KNOW ABOUT SAUDI ARABIA (1)

FIRST OF ALL  I WILL TALK ABOUT SAUDI HISTORY   

                                          

What is the history of Saudi Arabia?

Saudi Arabia, arid, sparsely populated kingdom of the Middle East.

The history of the Kingdom of Saudi ARABIA  begins properly on September 23, 1932, when by royal decree the dual kingdom of the HEJAZ and NAJD with its dependencies, administered since 1927 as two separate units, was unified under the name of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The chief immediate effect was to increase the unity of the kingdom and to decrease the possibility of HEJAZI separatism, while the name underscored the central role of the royal family in the kingdom’s creation. No attempt was made to change the supreme authority of the king as the absolute monarch of the new regime; indeed, his power was emphasized in 1933 by his choice of his son SAUD as heir apparent.

After Saudi Arabia declared its neutrality during world war (1939–45), Britain and the UNITED STATE subsidized Saudi Arabia, which declared war on Germany in 1945, and this thus enabled the kingdom to enter the United nations  as a founding member. Ibn saud also joined the ARAB LANGUAGE but he did not play a leading part in it, since the religious and conservative  element in Saudi Arabia opposed cooperation with other Arab states, even when Saudis shared common views, as in opposition to ZIONISM In the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, Saudi Arabia contributed only one battalion.