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Cairo Conference Picture
Cairo Conference -
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Cairo Conference of 1921
Winston Churchill organized the meeting after fighting in the Middle East. It was here that new boundaries and borders for the Middle East were laid out. The British's goal was to get less troops in but place them in strategic places and to control Iraq and Jordan with local leaders. They put Amir Faisal ibn Hussein in to rule Iraq and his brother, Abdullah I ibn Hussein. Furthermore, to rule Jordan. -
Creation of Israel
The Jews were trying to immigrate into the Middle East -- they took land and paid for it but the Arabs were upset about them coming in. The Arabs demanded the immigration be shut down along with no more sale of land to the Jewish. The British then issued the MacDonald White Paper which stopped immigration. Since so many people were trying to return to the Holy Land and immigrate, the UN voted to give them land and create Israel for the Jews. -
Pan-Arabism
Pan-Arabism was the movement for unity of the Arab people. Things that Pan-Arabism wished to achieve was close to the idea of Arab Nationalism, which is the idea of unifying to create one large, Arab Nation. It is an old idea but a person who advocated it was Gamal Abdel Nasser, former President of Egypt. He wished to be the leader of the Arab World. He created the United Arab Republic, which was a union between Egypt and Syria. However, it failed and the UAR fell apart. -
Six-Day War Picture
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Six-Day War
The Arabs disliked Israel and having the Jews in their territory. They all banded together to wipe them out of the Middle East and placed their troops into where UN forces were in the Sinai Peninsula. Israel took this as a call to war and on June 5th, destroyed all of Egypt's air force. As they continued to attack the Arab troops, starting towards Syria, they kept gaining land (refusing to give it back) and after six days, the Arabs asked the UN to help with the problem. -
Iranian Revolution Picture
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Iranian Revolution
The people of Iran were displeased with their Shah and began to rise up against him. They didn't like how Westernized he was and one of his most displeased people was a teacher named Ayatollah Khomeini, who was exiled. He moved to Paris and gave the people of Iran orders and organized strikes from there. The shah had to give up this government to the Vice President, who let Khoemeini return. Then on February 11th, the government fell and Khoemeini replaced westernization with religious mandates. -
Camp David Accords
Jimmy Carter called a session at the presidential Camp David between the Egyptian president, Anwar Sadat, and the Israeli prime minister, Menachem Begin. It was much of a peace treaty between the two countries and was called the "Framework for Peace in the Middle East". Israel agreed to give back the Sinai to Egypt and both recieved money while Israel was allowed to go through the Suez Canal. This angered many Arabs and Egyptians that Egypt would make an agreement with Israel so willingly. -
Iraq Invasion of Kuwait
Kuwait is a small but rich country because of it's large amount of oil. Saddam Hussein wanted to invade because they were having a financial crisis and because they owed Kuwait money. Kuwait was no match for when they invaded that morning and was immediately ransacked. The UN sent troops, along with the US, and during the Persian Gulf War, we destroyed half their army and got them out of Kuwait.
