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May 29, 1300
Rise of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottoman Empire's capitol city was the city of Istanbul. It was located in parts of North Africa, Southwest Asia, and Southeast Europe.The empire was ruled by infamous sultans. -
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World War 1
What started out as a local European war soon became a global war that lasted from 1914-1918. This war was the first war that involved nations and 28 of them! -
Fall of the Ottoman Empire
When Suleiman I died the Ottoman Empire faced bad leadership. The last sultan of the empire, Sultan Mehmed V made the decision to side with Germany and Italy against European powers and the US, but their side lost. -
Turkey Became a Republic
Turkey was established at a republic in 1923. The only thing was that it's ruler Mustafa Kemal believed the government should control and build the economy. -
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World War 2
World War 2 all started when Hitler invaded Poland. It was the first with widespread use of machine guns, air power, submarine operations, poison gas and armored vehicles. -
UN Divides Palestine
When the UN decided to divide Palestine it allowed formation of the Jewish state Israel. The caused the Palestinians to get mad. -
Arab Israeli Conflict
The United Nations established Israel, a nation under control of Jews, in Palestine in the late 1940s, in territory inhabited by Palestinian Arabs. the presence of Israel has led to constant contention between Israel and the Arab world. Both the Israelis and the Arabs claim land in Palestine is theirs by ancestral rights, and war has periodically broken out between them. -
PLO's Non-Recognition of Israel
About 700,000 Palestinian Arabs had to leave their homes. They fled to other Arab countries and went to camps set up by the UN. -
Israel Won 3rd Arab Israeli War
The Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies were decisively defeated, and Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria. The 1967 war, which lasted only six days, established Israel as the dominant regional military power. -
Israel Won the 4th Arab Israeli War
On October 6, 1973, hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, in 1967, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise. -
Persian Gulf War
Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. The Persian Gulf War began with a massive U.S.-led air offensive known as Operation Desert Storm. -
Oslo I Accord Gets Signed
The Oslo Accords are a set of agreements between the government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO): the Oslo I Accord, signed in Washington, D.C., in 1993 and the Oslo II Accord, signed in Taba in 1995. -
9/11
On September 11, 2001, terrorists attacked the United States. They hijacked four airplanes in mid-flight. The terrorists flew two of the planes into two skyscrapers at the World Trade Center in New York City... All In all, nearly 3,000 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks. -
Iraq War
The cause of this war was the fear of Iraq's nuclear weapons. Also people were scared of terrorist groups like Al-Qaeda.
