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68 Cards in this Set
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1908 |
discovery & exploitation of first oil fields in the Middle east |
non-Racist black money |
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1914 |
Ottoman empire enters the war against the Entente |
Ottoman chose the wrong team yo |
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1916 |
Sykes-Picot Agreement |
Europe come on |
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1917 |
Balfour declaration |
Guys thats promise number 3 |
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1919-1920 |
Turkish war of independence led by Ataturk |
Ataturk going at it |
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1921 |
Iraqi revolt |
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1920 |
Treaty of Sevres, dismantling of the ottoman empire |
so many bad treaty ideas |
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1922 |
limited independence of Egypt |
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1925 |
Syrian revolt |
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1928 |
creation of the muslim brotherhood in egypt |
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1929 |
creation of the jewish agency |
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1929-1938 |
many conflicts between Israel & Palestine |
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1932 |
independence of Iraq |
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1936 |
independence of egypt |
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1939 |
Britain bans the immigration of jews to Israel |
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1943 |
lebanese independence |
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1945 |
creation of the Arabe League (Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Transjodran) |
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1946 |
Syrian independence |
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1946 |
independence of Jordan |
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1947 |
UN resolution for the partition of Israel |
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1948 |
Ben-Gurion declares the establishement of a jewish state in israel |
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1948 |
arab league atacks israel and sparks the beginning of the first israelo-arab war |
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1950 |
clandestine operation of FATAH |
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1953 |
iranian revolution aided by the CIA and MI6 |
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1956 |
Suez Canal Crisis |
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1960 |
Creation of OPEC |
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1961 |
Establishement of the Non-aligned movement |
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1964 |
creation of PLO |
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1967 |
6 day war during which Israel expands to the sinai, gaza, west bank , golan heights and jerusalem |
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1967 |
blue helmets control the Suez Canal |
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1972 |
Black september |
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1973 |
Yom kippur war, arabe states attack israel during a holy jewish day, leads to petrol crisis |
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1978 |
Camp David Accords : Israelo-Egyptian peace treaty |
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1978 |
State of War in Afghanistan |
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1979 |
Iranian islamic revolution |
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1979-1989 |
soviet afghan war |
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1980-1988 |
iran-iraq |
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1981 |
Sadat is assassinated |
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1982 |
operation Peace in Galileo in Lebanon |
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1982 |
Creation of Hezbollah |
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1987-1993 |
First intifada |
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1989 |
Taif Accords mark the beginning of the end of the lebanese civil war |
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1990 |
Iraq invades Koweit, beginning the Gulf War |
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1990 |
US launches operation Desert Shield, US troops are permanently stationed in Saudi Arabia |
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1991 |
US launches operation Desert Storm with UN |
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1992 |
Iraq evacuates Koweit |
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1992-1996 |
Afghan civil war |
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1993-1995 |
Oslo acords establishment of Palestinian authority and progressive transfer of sovereignty to the PA |
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1994 |
Creation of the Taliban (afghanistan) |
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1996 |
PLO abolishes articles aiming at the destruction of israel |
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1996-2001 |
Taliban form the Afghan government |
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2000-2005 |
Second Intifada |
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2001 |
9/11 |
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2001 |
operation enduring freedom (to 2014) in afghanistan by US and allies but not with UN |
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2003 |
collapes of the iraqi government |
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2003 |
operation iraqi freedom |
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2002 |
beginning of the construction of the israel-palestine wall |
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2004 |
Madrid bombings by Al-qaeda |
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2005 |
end of Syrian occupation of Lebanon |
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2005 |
London bombings |
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2006 |
Hamas wins the elections to the palestinian legislative council |
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2006 |
Saddam Hussein hanged |
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2007 |
Gaza war |
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2007 |
split between Gaza, effectively controlled by Hamas, and West Bank, effectively controlled by FATAH |
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2011 |
UNSC rejects Abba's application to the UN, Palestine becomes a non-member observer state |
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2012/2014 |
Gaza war |
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2014-to present |
International campaign against Daesh |
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2018 |
Border protests, dozens of Palestinian deaths |
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