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Link Mohamed Bouazizi ,a Tunisian citizen, decides to light himself on fire after he is forced to abandon his fruit cart. This was his only source of income.
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Link-After weeks of mass protest, due to a lack of freedom, rising food prices, and unemployment, the Tunisian president flees. He is later aprehended for his crimes, which were misuse of state funds and embezzlement.
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Link-After a day of fighting with the Egyptian police, protesters march into the presidential palace. They force the president to step down. This event inspired revolution in many other countries, such as Lybia and Syria.
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Link-Saudi Arabia sends an intervention force to support the Bahrain government, due to increasing protests. The Bahraini government was fighting against a Muslin group that makes up a majority of their country.
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Link-The United Nations passed Resolution 1973 which allowed troops from Great Britain, France, and the United States to use whatever forces necessary to protect Libyan citizens. Bombing began within days on Colonel Gaddafi's forces.
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Link-On March 30th, presedent Bashar al-Assad gives a speech that was supposed to address his 10 years of not delivering on his promise of reform, but intead addresses the protests that had just began, and appeared to be entirely peacful. He then claimed that they were part of a foreign conpircy.
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Link-Rebel fighters killed Gaddafi near his hometown of Sirte. They also killed or exiled his sons and other members of his regime. His rule was based on himself and his relations. Many were satisfied because he was brought to justice.
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Link-Yemen president Ali Abdullah Saleh askes to leave his country, and his request is granted by the Gulf Co-operation Council. He was sent to the US without any consequences, but he left a country with many prooblems, with shortages of food and water being only 2 of them.
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Link-Mohammed Morsi was elected president to Egypt, but he was then faced with the challenge of fixing the countrys economic problems.
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Link-Israel decides to launch an offensive twards the country of Palistine.
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Link-Anti-Govenment protesters fight with police due to Mohammed Morsi not delivering on his promeses of change in economy. This event also had repocussions in Alexandria, where the HQ of the Muslum Brotherhood went up in flames, due to protesters.
