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Balfour Decleration
British foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour sent a letter to lord Rothschild stating that Britian will Support the Zionist movement because everyone felt guilty for all the antisemintism. This lead the league of nations to authorize United Kingdom with the British Mandate. -
Palestine became British Mandate
Britian received the league of nations mandate over Palestine. Britain promised to create national homeland for jewish people. Tensions between Jews and Muslims started to grow rapidly and riots broke out. The United Nations created the Partition Plan which typically divided Palestine into an Arab&Jewish State. Jerusalem was under international control. This led to the ending of the ending of the mandate and Isreal declaims its indepedence. -
Bill Clinton Becomes President
Clinton's predecessor, President George H. W. Bush, drove invading Iraqi troops out of Kuwait during the First Gulf War. Under President Clinton, the U.S. became the main enforcer for United Nations directives against Iraq, including economic sanctions, military no-fly zones, and weapons inspection teams. -
Holocaust
killed apporx. 6 million people. Adolf Hitler who led the Nazi Party encouraged prejudice and anti-semitism against Jews and other "undesirables".s. Nazis decided to set up camps to eliminate the people they saw unworthy so they wouldnt pass on their genes. This was a big reason why there were more Jews moving and living into the Holy Land in 1947 -
Six Day War
Israels decisive victory included the capture of the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, the old city of Jerusalem from Jordan and Golan Heights from Syria. The conditions of these territories afterwards became a major point of dispute in the Arab-Israeli conflict. -
Yom Kippur War
It got its name because the attack was on the Holiest day on the Jewish calender, which is during Ramadan; fasting. The Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a regulated attack against Israel. The goal of this war was to win back territory lost to Israel during a different war in 1967. -
Arab Oil Embargo
Arab oil producers cut off exports to the U.S. to protest an American military support for Israel in its 1973 war with Syria and Egypt. This brought soaring gas prices, and it contributed to a major economic downturn in the U.S. The embargo made the U.S. feel very dependent on Middle Eastern oil, which in turn led the U.S. to a focus on instability in that region. -
Alaskan Pipeline
The Trans Alaska Pipeline System was built as a means of transporting crude oil from the oilfields at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope to the U.S. The U.S. had to build this pipeline because the MIddle East refused to give oil to the U.S. because we helped Israel with its war against Israel and Syria. -
Jimmy Carter becomes President
Jimmy Carrter is mostly responible for Camp David Accords. This was an agreement between Israel and Egypt, this stated that Israel would withdraw from the entire Sinai Peninsula, as long as Egypt would no longer try to attack Israel. Which in turn would stop some of the conflict in the middle east. -
Camp David Accords
Agreement between Isreal and Egypt that later lead to a peace treaty. It was titled "Framework for peace in the Middle East". This became known as Camp David Accords because the discussion took place at the U.S. presidental retreat at Camp David. This also gave Egypt the sinai pennisula. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Angry mob of young islamic revolutionaries overran the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking American diplomats as hostages, 52 americans were held captive for 444 days. on January, 20 1981 the Algerian government medicated a deal between American and Iranian governments. The remaining 52 hostages were released to the U.S. and sent back home. The accords stated that the U.S. could no longer intervene in Iran in any capacity, and trade barriers must be broken. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
The Soviet Union involves in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anit-communist muslim guerrillas during Afghan war. Soviets took control of Kabai. They did this in order to expend their influence to Asia. To pressure the communist government that was beginning to collapse, and to protect their interest in western nations. -
Ronald Reagan becomes President
Ronald Reagons policys were to try and keep "peace". He served towards the end of the cold war, and still tried to stop the spread of communsism. He also kept an oil flow to the us during the iraq-iran war. -
Desert Storm
Operation Desert Storm was a code name for military operations when the Guld War started. This was was an action which lead to the enlargement of defence and troops of Saudi Arabia. Iraqs invasion and possible threat posed to Saudi Arabia prompted the U.S. and its western Allies to rush troops to Saudia Arabia to prepare a possible attack. This invasion destroyed Iraqs government buildings, oil refineries, and weapon plants. -
World Trade Center 1993
Terrorists parked a van in a garage underneath the World Trade Center’s twin towers & lit the fuses on a massive homemade bomb loaded inside. 6 people died and more than 1,000 were injured in the consecutive explosion, The World Trade Center bombing was inspired by the ambition to kill as many people as possible. The terrorists choose the World Trade Center as a target not because it was a symbol of Western values but because the collapse would enable them to -
Centrazbat
Military exercise including Turkey, US and Russia. The purpose was to strenghten the ties with the central asian states for military purposes. NATO helped create and fund Centrazbat so when NATO stopped funding the program it ceased to exist. However, the countries involved continued peacekeeping forces also known aas CSTO. -
Embassy Bombing in Tanzania
Powerful terrorist car bombs exploded just minutes apart outside U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania killing at least 81 people -- including eight Americans -- and injuring more than 1,600. This connects to the Middle East becasue after this event we grew more terrified of terrorism in the MIddle East, we took extra precautions monitoring -
Embassy bombing in Kenya
A mass killing planned by Al Qaeda where a truck bomb bombed the US Embassies and killed hundreds. Osama Bin Laden led Al Qaeda and this put him in the Top Ten Most Wanted with the FBI. This was the first time Al Qaeda was brought to America's attention as a large threat. Bin laden is apart of the extremist group, meaning he is a terrorist on anyone who does not have musim beliefs. Caused tension between america and middle east muslims. -
U.S.S. Cole
The U.S.S. Cole was attacked by a small boat laden with explosives during a brief refueling stop in the harbor of Aden, Yemen. The suicide terrorist attack killed 17 members of the ships crew, wounded 39 others, and seriously damaged the ship. Evidence developed to date suggests that it may have been carried out by Islamic militants from the MIddle East with possible connections to the terrorist network led by Usama bin Ladin. -
George W. Bush
George W. Bush was president during important events in US history. He was president when the World Trade Center was bombed for the second time and destoyed. He had to make decisons as to how to deal with the new issues of terrorism and how to solve issues with the Middle East over all. -
World Trade Center 2001
The attack on the world trade center was a series of airline hijackings and suicide attacks committed by 19 militants asociated with the islamic extremist group Al- Qaedas against targets in U.S. The extreme group is a division of Jihad meaning war against anyone who does not have muslim beliefs.Attackers were from Saudi Arabia and many other Arab nations. acttacked for America's support of Israel, its involvement in the Persian Gulf War, and its -
Iraq 2001-Present
The conventional wisdom now is that the war in Iraq is also an unmitigated disaster. But if the troubles in Iraq are addressed in a resolute, rather than a defeatist, manner, today's conventional wisdom can be proved wrong as well. A stabilized, less repressive Iraq, with its different ethnic and religious communities accepting one another in some devolved framework, can be a liberating influence in the Middle East. -
ISIS
The main victor in the new war in Iraq is the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isis). They are extremist that believe that everyone who doesnt believe in their religion should be killed. They were also the group that caused 9/11. They also contributed to most of the violance in the middle east. -
U.S> relations with Israel - Present
The U.S. has only maintained a very close ans supportive relationship with Israel because the United Sates feels bad about all the anti-semitism after world war 2. this causes a lot of conflict for us becasue whenever Israel gets into trouble we have to help and defend them. -
Barack Obaman becomes President
Obama will refocus American resources on the greatest threat to our security the resurgence of al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan. They will increase our troop levels in Afghanistan, press our allies in NATO to do the same, and dedicate more resources to revitalize Afghanistan’s economic development. Obama and Biden will demand the Afghan government do more, including cracking down on corruption and the illicit opium trade.
