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High points of the twenteith century

By WHairan

  • Sykes Picot

    Sykes Picot
    This is an agreement between France and Britain which was done secretly. The purpose and the results were to divide the whole middle east or the former Ottoman territory in between them.

  • Balfour

    Balfour
    Balfour was the famous declaration or (British-jewish) agreement in which Britain inconspicuously promised Palestine to Israel in exchange for some money which Britain needed at the time to run its war machine.

  • WWI and birth of Turkey

    WWI and birth of Turkey
    World war one was the war which gave birth to the Arabs and separated them from the Ottomans' Empire which just changed lost badly and changed into Turkey.

  • Jewish Genocie

    Jewish Genocie
    This is also referred to as Holocaust. It was a mass murder and genocide of the Jews in Europe. This is also thought to be the main reason for the starting of Jewish immigration from Europe to Palestine.

  • WWII

    WWII
    World war 2 shaped the world we see today. It certainly gave birth to the Holocaust which became the reason for the new state of Israel in middle east.

  • Arab Israeli war

    Arab Israeli war
    This is also referred to as the six days war which happened between the Arab alliances and the Jewish state of Israel. The results were so ironic because the Arabs lost despite their large number of soldiers as opposed to the Israeli soldiers.

  • First Arab Israeli Peace session

    First Arab Israeli Peace session
    This session is called the Camp David session because it took place in Camp David whish was a vacation place for American President of the time Jimmy Carter.

  • Iran Iraq War

    Iran Iraq War
    This was a war between Iraq and Iran which was mainly based on ideologies of the Shiia and Sunni. Arab countries supported Iraq in this war because they thought that the war was an Arab Iranian War.

  • Iraqi Kuwaiti War

    Iraqi Kuwaiti War
    This war is also called the Khaliji war which happened between Iraq and Kwait. The sole reason behind the war was that Kwait wanted its money back from Iraq (the money that supported Iraqi war machine against Iran.)