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| 358728022 | Hussein-MacMahon Letters | if the arabs help the british defeat the ottomans then the hashemites will control arabia | 0 | |
| 358728023 | Balfour Declaration | jewish people were given the holy land | 1 | |
| 358728024 | Sykes-Picot Agreement | British and French would take syria | 2 | |
| 358728025 | Lawrence of Arabia | British military officer who incited the Arabs in Arabia to revolt against their Turkish lords | 3 | |
| 358728026 | mandate system | Allocation of former German colonies and Ottoman possessions to the victorious powers after World War I, to be administered under League of Nations supervision | 4 | |
| 358728027 | Hashemites | Rulers of the kingdom of Hijaz; Aligned with British in exchange for guaranteed right to rule some of the formerly Ottoman lands(Jordan and Iraq) | 5 | |
| 358728029 | Mustafa Kemal Attaturk | modernized and westernizes turkey; eventually becomes a democracy under attaturk | 6 | |
| 358728030 | Zionism | a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine | 7 | |
| 358728031 | British Palestine | Granted by the League of Nations following World War I, it gave Britain control over the government of Palestine. | 8 | |
| 358728032 | Partition Plan (1948) | UN recommends Palestine be divded into Jewish and Arab states; Jews accepted and declared the state of Israel in 1948 | 9 | |
| 358728033 | Israel (1948) | israel goes to war with other arab countries to establish the homeland for the jews. they are successful and establish israel | 10 | |
| 358728034 | David Ben-Gurion | Israel's first prime minister, state directed on 1)Army 2) Trade Union 3) Education System | 11 | |
| 358728035 | -- Arab-Israeli War of 1848 | known as the Israeli war for independence | 12 | |
| 358728036 | Gamel Abdel Nasser | He was president of Egypt from 1956-1970. During the Suez Crisis, he nationalized the canal, causing a dispute between him and Israel, France and Britain helped him with the dispute | 13 | |
| 358728037 | Pan-Arabism | a nationalist movement built on the shared heritage of Arabs who lived in the lands from the Arabian peninsula from North Africa | 14 | |
| 358728038 | Aswan High Dam | It was built in 1956 to control the flooding of the Nile River. The dam gives Egyptian farmers a more dependable source of water for their crops and it also gives Egypt electrical power | 15 | |
| 358728039 | Suez Crisis (1956) | International crisis launched when Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal, which had been owned mostly by French and British stockholders. The crisis led to a British and French attack on Egypt, which failed without aid from the United States. The Suez Crisis marked an important turning point in the post-colonial Middle East and highlighted the rising importance of oil in world affairs. | 16 | |
| 358728040 | Six -Day War (1967) | war in which many arab nations planned to attack Israel but Israel attack the air bases of the other countries and quickly took them out in 6 days; they were given gaza strip siani pennisula, west bank, golon heights | 17 | |
| 358728045 | Palestinian Liberation Organization (1964) | wanted to destroy israel; would not recognize Israel as a country; considered a terrorist group | 18 | |
| 358728046 | Yasir Arafat | leader of the PLO | 19 | |
| 358728047 | Black September (1970) | after PLO hijacking in Jordan they blow up air crafts, Jordanians expel the Palestinians into lebanon | 20 | |
| 358728048 | Lebanon | was destabilized after Black September because of the rapid immigration of Palestinians | 21 | |
| 358728049 | Munich Olympics (1972) | PLO kidnapped the Israeli wrestling team and kill every single wrestler | 22 | |
| 358728050 | Oslo Accords (1993) | Meeting in Norway where the PLO recognizes Israels right to exist and vice versa | 23 | |
| 358728051 | Yom Kippur (1973) | War betweeen Egypt and Israel, israel is losing but the U.S gives large amounts of aid and they continue to hold the lands they had previously | 24 | |
| 358728052 | Golda Meir | (1898-1978) Israeli politician; she was the prime minister of Israel during the Yom Kippur War and sought assistance and supplies from the U.S. | 25 | |
| 358728053 | oil embargo | an embargo on the US by OPEC for giving aid to Israel | 26 | |
| 358728054 | OPEC (1960) | organization petroleum exportation countries; embargoed oil to the U.S in 1973 | 27 | |
| 358728055 | United Arab Emirates | a federation of seven Arab emirates on the eastern Arabian peninsula; very large exporter of oil in the middle east | 28 | |
| 358728056 | Camp David Accords (1979) | peace treaty between Egypt and Israel recognizing Israel and Israel gives back the Sinai Peninsula | 29 | |
| 358728057 | Anwar Sadat | Egyptian leader Assassinated most likely for recognizing Israel as a country | 30 | |
| 358728058 | Ibn Saud | reform leader in the early 1920s and united Northern Arabian Peninsula. He created Saudi Arabia in 1932. | 31 | |
| 358728059 | Wahhabism | a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia | 32 | |
| 358728060 | Grand Mosque attack (1979) | an attack on the holiest place for Muslims by an islamist militant group eventually taken out | 33 | |
| 358728061 | Saddam Hussein | arab socialists leader of Ba'ath Party who becomes leader in Iraq in 1979 and convinced to invade Iran in 1981 | 34 | |
| 358728062 | Ba'ath Party | Arab socialist party seeking a secular government and freedom from foreign control, founded by michael aflaq | 35 | |
| 358728063 | Shah Reza Pahlavi | Iran's leader after WWII who embraced Western governments and wealthy western oil companies | 36 | |
| 358728065 | Mohammad Mossadeq | The nationalist prime minister. He nationalized Iran's oil industry and led the drive for limiting foreign influence in Iran and for instituting democracy in the country. | 37 | |
| 358728066 | Iranian Revolution (1979) | Islamic Revolution in Iran. Shiite branch dominated. Anti-Western. Encouraged other Arab states to also have fundamentalist ideals. | 38 | |
| 358728068 | Kuwait | an Arab kingdom in Asia on the northwestern coast of the Persian Gulf | 39 | |
| 358728069 | Persian Gulf War (1990-91) | Conflict that was triggered by a dispute over oil-drilling rights, leading to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait in 1990. This war ended when the U.S. intervened, crushing Iraqi resistance and liberating Kuwait. | 40 | |
| 358728070 | Osama bin Laden | Founder of al Qaeda, the terrorist network responsible for the attacks of September 11, 2001, and other attacks. | 41 |
