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He belonged to Qajar dynasty between XVIII and XX century.io
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The first Shah was an army's officer that makes a coup against the Qajars in 1921, after this, he was known like Reza Shah.
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The second Shah was the son of the first, called Mohammed Reza. He started to govern in 1941 when British obliged his father to resign.
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British backed up a Reza Khan in the coup. They toked the control during years in a fight of power with Russia for the Iran territory. Britain occupied part of Iran during the First World War and didn't stop the police control of the country until they signed the Declaration of Tehran in 1943 with Russia and USA. This control finished when the production of oil in Iran was born in 1951.
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The Whit Revolution started in 1963. The second Shah wanted to modernize Iran social and economical. As objectives included erase the alphabetism
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