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Finding oil
article*A British company strikes oil in Persia (now Iran). It's the first big petroleum find in the Middle East, and it sets off a wave of exploration, extraction and exploitation that will change the region's -- and the world's -- history.* -
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World War I
Austria-Hungary declared war on Serbia This spread rapidly: soon, Germany, Russia, Great Britain, and France were all drawn into the war, largely because they were involved in treaties that obligated them to defend certain other nations. Western and eastern fronts quickly opened along the borders of Germany and Austria-Hungary. -
Hussein-Mc. Mahon correspondance
It was between the Sharif of Mecca, Husayn bin Ali, and Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, during World War I in order for the Arabs to revolt against the Ottomon Empire by the help of the British. -
Sykes-Picot
was a secret agreement between the governments of the United Kingdom and France with the assent of Russia.The agreement effectively divided the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire outside the Arabian peninsula into areas of future British and French control or influence* -
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The Great Arab Revolt
It was initiated by the Sherif Hussein bin Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in Syria to Aden in Yemen. And also with the aid of the British -
Balfour declaration
was a letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.* -
End of the Ottoman Empire
It was one of the largest and longest empires in the world, it lasted 1299 until 1919. The fall of the Ottoman Empire was because of the Great Arab Revlot and by the help of the British -
Nakbah
The "catastrophe", it happened due to many factors which are; attacks against Arab villages and the massacre after Deir Yassin. Which lead to over 700,000 people feld to other countries leaving their land. Then Israel offered to the about 100,000palestinians to come back to their homes. -
End of Hashemites in Iraq
the overthrow of the Hashemite monarchy established by King Faisal I in 1932 under the auspices of the British. -
Naksa
its the annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the displacement that accompanied Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. -
The June War (the six day war)
In this war israel occupied the West Bank and the Ghaza strip. This war lasted for 6 days. It is also the third Arab-Israeli war -
Black September
It was a month which a stuggle between the Jordanian monarchy lead by King Hussein and the PLO occured.
