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Period: to
Middle East
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Balfour Declaration
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LoN gave Britain mandate over Palestine
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500K Jews migrated to Palestine
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Arab League is formed
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Britain Turns over the Palestine problem to the UN
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Israel proclaims independence
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is formed
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Six-Day War
Egypt, Syria, and Jordan attack Israel on opposite fronts -
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Lebanon Civil War
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Syria intervenes in the civil war
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Israel's full scale invasion of Lebanon
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Israel withdraws from Lebanon
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Lebanon approves a new constitution
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End of Lebanese Civil War
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First Gulf War starts with Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
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End of Persian Gulf War