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Omar al Mukhtar Libyan resistance against Italy
Lion of The Desert - Omar Al-Mukhtar movie trailerWhen the Italian Empire went to the Ottoman Libya in the late 1911 starting the Italo-Turkish War, a colony was formed subduing the free Libyan citizens.
Omar Al-Mukhtar has lead the resistance movement in 1912. Having knowledge of the desert warfare, he had an advantage of ambushing the Italian army in several incidents until he was captured and hanged in 1931. -
Sykes-Picot Agreement
A secret agreement between the British and the French dividing up the middle east between them depending on their interests. François Georges-Picot and Sir Mark Sykes had the agreement with the presence of a russian party. When the Russian Revolution happened, everything was revealed to the world making different sides of the issue either imbarassed, upset, or happy. -
The Arab Revolt
The Allies were losing against the Ottoman Empire and they needed every bit of help they would get. They asked the Arabs and they did help Britain aganst the Ottomans in the first world war resulting in winning over the Ottomans. -
Fall of the Ottoman Empire
The Ottomans had different people inder their rule. once it fell, a lot of different people who had common interests started nationalistic movements in order to gain their independence in their own country -
Oil in Saudi
Since that time, different companies from different places in the world has been trying to take advantage of it. When it began to thrive later after, different countries from the world made agreements with Saudi in order to guarantee their share from oil, especially that it is the fuel that ignites the whole world. -
World War II
With the start of the second World War, European Jews started immigrating from their homes in different places in Europe to Palestine, as the Balfour Declaration promised. The Biritsh government tried to control the immigration by having the white papers signed and looked at thoroughly. They ended up satisfying both sides and limiting the amount of immigrants until the holocaust happened. -
Holocaust
Nazi Hitler's genocide against European Jews had its effect on the Arab world. Since millions of Jews were put into concentration camps, nobody wanted to stay in Europe, so they had to leave; to Palestine. Britian coulnd't sustain the number of immigrants, that's when a whole lot of Jews came into Palestine after what they've faced in Europe -
1948 Nakba
The war against the Arab Allience from Israel resulted in changing how the middle east looks. The Israelis had their state after this war when they won their independence. -
1967 six-days war
Edypt, Jordan, and Syria fought a war against Israel in order to make some effect on the idle Arab-Israeli conflict. It ended up with the Arabs losing the war with a huge territory of their land. -
Iraq-Iran Gulf War
Brief video showing the land combat between the Iraqis and the Iranis After having a tension between each other, Iraq and Iran went mobilized for a war. The reason behind it was basically because of long disagreements between the two sides. With Iran having its revolution, Saddam wanted to guarintee the Shiite majority in Iraq and he wanted to make sure to keep them under control.
