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| 154086292 | Anwar Sadat | Egyptian president who made peace with Israel | 0 | |
| 154086293 | PLO | a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine | 1 | |
| 154086294 | Yitzhak Rabin | The Israeli prime minister who agreed to grant the Palestinians their own land. In 1995 he was killed by Jewish extremists | 2 | |
| 154086295 | Hezbollah | a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran | 3 | |
| 154086296 | Islamism | An Islamic revivalist movement, often characterized by moral conservatism, literalism, and the attempt to implement Islamic values in all spheres of life. | 4 | |
| 154086297 | Iranian Revolution (1979) | Islamic Revolution in Iran. Shiite branch dominated. Anti-Western. Encouraged other Arab states to also have fundamentalist ideals. | 5 | |
| 154086298 | Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi | Iran's leader after WWII who embraced Western governments and wealthy western oil companies | 6 | |
| 154086299 | Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini | Shi'ite philosopher and cleric who led the overthrow of the shah of Iran in 1979 and created an Islamic republic. | 7 | |
| 154086300 | Saddam Hussein | Iraqi leader who waged war against Iran | 8 | |
| 154086301 | Iran-Iraq War | 1980-1988: Saddam Hussein attempted to gain more land. The US backed Iran. | 9 | |
| 154086302 | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | President of Iran | 10 | |
| 154086303 | Gulf War (1991) | Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait despite peace treaty and refusal to abandon Iraqi occupation | 11 | |
| 154086304 | Iraq invasion | U.S. & others invade and defeat Iraq troops (1993) | 12 | |
| 154086305 | September 11 | attack on the world trade center - act of terrorism | 13 | |
| 154086306 | "weapons of mass destruction" | nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that can kill tens of thousands of people all at once | 14 |
