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18 Cards in this Set
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In 1953, ________-seized power in egypt. He wanted to unite all arabs. |
Gama Abdel Nasser |
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The belief that all arabs should be united in a single state is known as |
Pan Arabeism |
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Other nations refused Nasser's ideas. He then tried to solve Egypts problems by nationalizing_______, regulating wages/prices and taking from the rich and giving to the poor |
Busniess |
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AFter nassers deadth, the new president is__________ he opened egypt to froeign investement he moved farther from SU influcence he was killed in 1981 |
Anwar el Sudat |
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Sadats sucessor was_______who looked to mend things with neighboring countries. |
Hosini Mubarak |
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1917- Britian passed the __________ promosing there would be a jewish homeland in palestine |
Belfour Decleration |
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Arabs were given the_______ and __________ |
wes bank and gaza strip |
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was the yesCreation of israel was a political issue? |
yes, arab nations refused to reconize israle and lauched an attack. |
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1956- Israel, Britan &______ attacked egypt for the Suez canal, but the superowers stopped them |
france |
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1967- the " _____" erupted in which israel won in 6 days and gained the gaza strip, sinai pennisla, west bank and the golan heigts. ISREAL WON |
Six day war |
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1973- Arabs attack Israel again, they ______ |
won |
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1978- Anwar el Sadat (egypt) and __________ (Israel) were invited by Jimmy carter to camp david.. this was the 1st step to peace, called the camp david accords |
Menachim Begin |
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Shah_______ of Iran introduced elements of westrn cuture and tech.no oneliked it, he was overthrown in 1979 |
Reza Pehlavi |
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______________________an islamic fundameltanlist becmae leader and returned ran to values based onthe Koran |
Ayatallah Khmeini |
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_________war (80-88_) raq took advanted of irans political unrest and tried to seze te perian gulf the war threatend the shippng of oill needed in the west. |
Iran Iraq |
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After the iran iraq war, Iran rebuilt its_____- and social freedom |
economy |
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Relations with the west gradually improved in Iran but had a st back in 2002. Geo. Bush grouped ________ and _________ as an "axis of evil". BAD IDEA |
Iraq N Korea |
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There was a growing concern that Iran has _________- |
nuclear weaposn |
