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Balfour Declaration
Letter that said that if Great Britian won WWI they would give the Jews Land. -
Palestine becomes British mandate
Great britian was assigned by the Leauge of Nations to control the holy land untill the Jewish people could govern themselves. This is an example of zionism. -
Holocaust
The mass killing of mor than 6 million jews, by hitler, just because of their religios beleafs. After the holocaust happens Zionism begins. -
Israel-U.S Relations
The main expression of Congressional support for Israel has been foreign aid. Since 1985, it has provided nearly $3 billion in grants annually to Israel, with Israel being the largest annual recipient of American aid from 1976 to 2004 and the largest cumulative recipient of aid. What really started it was when Wilson felt bad about how the Jews were treated and he wanted to protect them. Now, we just want to have relations in the middle east for oil and other natural resources. -
Six Day War
The Six-Day War was fought between June 5th and June 10th. The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel. Rather than wait to be attacked, the Israelis launched a hugely successful military campaign against its perceived enemies. The air forces of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq were all but destroyed on June 5th. By June 7th, many Egyptian tanks had been destroyed in the Sinai Desert a -
Arab Oil Embargo
OAPEC started the embargo in response to American invovment in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Six days after Egypt and Syria launched a surpsie miliatary campaign against Isreal to regain land lost in the June 1967 six-day war. The US also supplied Isreal with Arms. Oil priced rose, this was a big problem because the U.S is a oil dependant nation. -
Yom Kippur War
Egyptian army occupied the eastern coast of the Suez Canal with expecation of the Israel Crossing. Egypt's stated goal for the war was the expelling of the Israeli forces occupying Sinai -
Alaskan Pipeline
This was a response to the oil embargo. Oil prices rose to the U.S needed some other way to get oil. So they build a pipeline to get oil from Alaska -
Camp David Accords
A peace acord that distributed land in the middle east and mor specificaly Egypt and Israel. Gave Sinai to Egypt and gave West Bank and the Gaza Atrip to Israel. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Iranian student captured over 60 Americans. they did so to show a break with Iran's past and to end American interferference in it's affairs. -
Soviets invade Afganistan
The Soviet Union intervined in Afganistan to support the Afgan communist government in it's conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afgan war. -
Ronald Reagan
He put together a peace propasal for the israeli - Palestinian conflict in one of his speeches in 1982. -
George H.W. Bush
He launched operation desert shield, immediately putting U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia to defend against a possible invasion by Iraq. -
Gulf War
Was an air raid on the Iraq Air defense. Before taking out communications and Government buildings.It was a respnse to Iraq invading Kuwait -
Bill Clinton
Made a peace treaty between Israel and Jordan. Also made a foreign policy that would work with our allies in the middle east so we coud still do business. -
Centrazbat 1997
Nato and the middle eastern countries of Turkey, kazakhstan, uzbekistan, and Kyrgyzstan would go through a seris of millitary training to make stronger ties with central Asia. -
Embassy bombing in Kenya
Al-Qaeda bombed a U.S. embassy in Kenya and 213 people were killd. Al-Qaeda called for the Removal of the U.S. in the Ariabian peninsula and all other muslim countries. -
Embassy Bombing Tanzaina
Bombed the US Embassy because it was considered revenge for American involvment and tourture of of 4 members of EIJ -
U.S.S Cole
U.S.S Cole was docked at Yemeni and which a 700 pound explosive was attached to the ship. al-Qaeda claimed responsiblity. -
George W. Bush
He ordered an attack on Afganistan's Taliban regime in October of 2001 in attempt to capture Bin Laden. He also made troops invade Iraq in 2003 and started the Iraq war. -
World Trade Center 2001
islamic terroist group Al-Qaeda flew 2 planes into the world trade center in NYC. They did this to send a message to the U.S. to get out of middle eastern affairs. the U.S. has now killed Osama Bin Laden who was the Leader of Al-Qaeda. -
Iraq 2001-present
The invasion of Iraq started with the invasion of Afganistan due to the twin towers being bombed and destoryed. We invaded Iraq on March 20th, 2003 in relation to capture Saddam Hussein. The war basically continued to the next decade because the rising forces in Iraq. We offically withdrew in 2011. -
Barrack Obama
Obama has taken a very anti ware policy with Iraq because of the muslim groups the sunis and the shiites. He thinks the two groups will settle there differences without U.S. presence. He is with drawing troops frpm Iraq. -
ISIS
ISIS is a muslim extremist group that is attempting to kill all non muslims in the middle east.
