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20 Cards in this Set
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Ottoman Empire |
Controlled the Middle East for centuries, but collapsed after they lost WWI |
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Kemal Ataturk |
Founded and led Turkey, economic and cultural reforms, democracy, women's rights |
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OPEC |
An organization of Petroleum Exporting countries (an Oil Cartel) decide the price of oil |
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Saddam Hussein |
Longtime dictator of Iraq -Fought neighbor Iran in the 1980s for water rights -Iraq invaded Kuwait for oil-->Persian Gulf War -Launched a genocide of the Kurdish people |
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Kurds |
An ethnic minority in Iraq, Turkey and Iran who were persecuted by the Iraq government Want their own nation of Kurdistan |
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Ayatollah Khomeini |
the new leader of Iran, Islamic Cleric opposite of Shah- anti USA an district Muslim |
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Shah Reza Pahlavi |
The King and dictator of Iran considered too friendly with the U.S and the West |
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Mossadegh |
The Prime Minister of Iran, elected by the people, wanted to collectivize oil, overthrown by the US |
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Hostage Crisis |
Irani extremists took 52 hostages from the U.S embassy in Tehran |
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Iranian Revolution |
Overthrows the Shah who was put in power by the U.S and puts the Ayatollah in power |
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Ahmadinejad |
The current leader of Iran Wants to annihilate the US and Britain and gain nuclear weapons to destroy Israel Doesn't believe that the Holocaust happened to the extent to which it did. |
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Iran-Iraq War |
1980- Iraq invades Iran due to their instability after the Islamic Revolution. Iraq used chemical weapons. Both sides attacked each other on the Persian Gulf, and the U.S sent in naval forces to protect shipping lanes. Ended in a stalemate, very costly in $ and people for both sides |
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Anwar Sadat |
Egyptian leader and peacemaker with Israel who was assassinated after Camp David |
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Yassir Arafat |
Leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization, goal is to take back all Palestinian land from Israel |
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5 wars in Israel |
1948- Israeli war for Independence-->Israel Wins 1956-Sini campaign 1967- Six Days War, Israel gains West Bank, Golan Heights and Sini Peninsula 1973- Yom Kippur War UN Cease Fire declared 1987- Intifadah |
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Peace Treaties |
Camp David- president Carter, Sadat of Egypt and Begin of Israel. Sadat agreed to end war with Israel, while Begin agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt. Oslo- Made by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzak Rabin and Arafat of Palestine under the supervision of President Clinton. Israel agreed to move out of Palestinian areas and give them self-rule, while Palestine promised to end violence with Israel. |
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Balfour Declaration |
Signed by Britain offering a pledge of support to the creation of Israel |
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Zionism |
The belief that Jews should have a homeland. The Crusades, Czarist Pogroms, The Inquisition, The Reconquista and the Holocaust are all reasons why a homeland was needed for the Jews. |
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Terrorism |
Hamas is a terrorist group located on the Gaza Strip with the goal of destroying Israel Al Qaeda is a mulsim extremist group |
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Sharia Law |
Islamic principles |
