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Sykes-Picot agreement
It splits up the Ottoman empire and gives it to Great Brittan and France -
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Ottaman empire colapses
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King Faisal I becomes King of Iraq
due to the fall of the ottoman empire the he became king of iraq -
Iraq's Monarchy Collapses
Although the monarch Faisal I of Iraq was legitimized and proclaimed King by a plebiscite in 1921, independence was achieved in 1932, when the British Mandate officially ended -
Ba’athist Party Take Control
The party was founded by the merger of the Arab Ba'ath Movement, led by Aflaq and al-Bitar, and the Arab Ba'ath, led by al-Arsuzi, as the Arab Ba'ath Party. The party quickly established branches in other Arab countries, although it would only hold power in Iraq and Syria. -
Saddam Hussein Takes Power
A leading member of the revolutionary Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party, and later, the Baghdad-based Ba'ath Party and its regional organisation Ba'ath Party – Iraq Region—which espoused ba'athism, a mix of Arab nationalism and Arab socialism—Saddam played a key role in the 1968 coup that brought the party to power in Iraq. -
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Iran-Iraq War
The Iran–Iraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran via air and land on. It followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. -
Halabja chemical attack
was a genocidal massacre against the Kurdish people during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the Kurdish city of Halabja in Southern Kurdistan. The attack was part of the Al-Anfal campaign in northern Iraq, as well as part of the Iraqi attempt to repel the Iranian Operation Zafar 7. It took place 48 hours after the fall of the town to Iranian army and Kurdish guerrillas.The attack killed between 3,200 and 5,000 people and injured 7,000 to 10,000 more, -
Gulf War
Kuwait's invasion by Iraqi troops that was met with international condemnation, and brought immediate economic sanctions against Iraq by members of the U.N. Security Council. U.S. President George H. W. Bush deployed U.S. forces into Saudi Arabia, and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene. An array of nations joined the Coalition, the largest military alliance since World War II. -
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Invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 19 March to 1 May 2003 and signaled the start of the conflict that later came to be known as the Iraq War, which was dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom by the United States The invasion consisted of 21 days of major combat operations, in which a combined force of troops from the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Poland -
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Withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq
The withdrawal of U.S. military forces from Iraq was a contentious issue in the United States for much of the 2000s. As the war progressed from its initial invasion phase in 2003 to a nearly decade-long occupation, American public opinion shifted towards favoring a troop withdrawal; in May 2007, 55% of Americans believed that the Iraq War was a mistake, and 51% of registered voters favored troop withdrawal. In late April 2007 Congress passed a supplementary spending bill for Iraq that set a d -
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Bombing of IsIs in Iraq
Bahrain, Jordan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) all assisted with the operation against ISIS, the U.S. military said. In all, 200 pieces of ordnance were dropped by coalition members, and four dozen aircraft were used. About 150 of the munitions used were precision-guided. The United States fired 47 Tomahawk missiles, eight of them against Khorasan targets.