The Arab League was created decades before the Creation of the European Union, yet the European states have played a big role in its organization. Starting with its launch, which was a British supported idea, to increase Arab-Nationalism against the Ottomans in World War I. The European states then suffered with what was called the independent movements that raged the Arab world. This occurred especially in the French Colonized Algeria, Syria, Lebanon and Morocco, and the British Colonized Iraq, Egypt, Palestine and the Kingdom of Trans-Jordan.