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Balfour Declaration
Led to the Jewish Community in Britain and America into believing that Great Britian would support the creation of a Jewih state in the Middle East -
Palestine Became British Mandate
Legal commision for the administration of the territory that had formerly constituted the Ottoman Empire -
Holocaust
When Adolf Hitler became chancellor of Germany to when the war in Europe officially ended. The Holocaust was a genocide in which approximately 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazi regime. Killings took place throughout Nazi Germany and German occupied territories. This in an example of Anti-Semitism which is the hatred of Jews. This is why they wanted their own state (Israel) that they could govern themselves and live away from persecution. -
Bill Clinton Becomes President
Bill Clinton became president in 1946, and the major thing that happened during his time in office was the formation of the Foreign Policy. Foreign policy determines how America conducts relations with other countries. It is designed to further certain goals. It seeks to assure America’s security and defense. It seeks the power to protect and project America’s national interests around the world. -
Six Day War
Took place in 1967, June 5-10. Third of the Arab-Isreli wars. Israel won, including the capture of Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Old City of Jerusalem, and the Golden heights. The status of those territories become a major point of contention in the Arab-Israeli conflict. -
Alaskan Pipeline
Because of the oil embargo, they needed more ways to get oil so it was built as a means of transporting crude oil from the oilfields at Prudhoe Bay on Alaska's North Slope to the marine and northern most ice-free port in Valdez, where it is loaded aboard tankers for the journey to U.S. refineries. -
Yom Kippur War
Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attak against Isreal on Yom Kippur hoping to win back territory lost to Isreal during the third Arab-Isreali war (1967). Isreal counterattaked and recaptured the Golan Heights. A cease fire went into effect on October 25th, 1973. -
Arab Oil Emargo
OPEC members were Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuala. As a result of the Arab-Isreali war of 1973, OPEC emposed an embargo on oil shipments to the US and other industrial nations in the winter of 1973 and 1974. Oil and gas prices increased as supplies ran low. -
Jimmy Carter Becomes President
One of the most important things President Carter accomplished in the Middle East would be the Camp David Accords, which created peace between Egypt and Israel. Another important event would be the Iran Hostage Crisis. This was when Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and took hostages. Another event would be when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan. -
Camp David Accords
Signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin. The Camp David Accords were to make peace between Egypt and Israel. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, taking more than 60 hostages -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan an imediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. -
Ronald Reagan Becomes President
When he became president, Reagan quickly undermined Soviet efforts to subdue the government in Afghanistan. As the Iran-Iraq war intensified, the Reagan administration covertly intervened to maintain a balance of power, supporting both nations at separate times. The United States mainly supported Iraq, however. Two members of Reagan's administration worked through CIA and military to sell weapons to Iran and give the money to contra guerillas in Nicaragua. This led to the Iran Contra Affair. -
Desert Storm
operational code name for the military operations at the start of the Gulf War. Started January 17th, 1991, and ended on February 28th, 1995. Started as a US Apache helicopter attak started in Iraq. -
World Trade Center 1993
The attack was motivated to kill as many people as possible. The bombers were a group of Jersey men, who had been in suspected of terrorism for more than two years. They worked as terrorists in the name of Islamic Jihad, although expressions of religious faith or motivation were notably absent from their statements. After this attak, the death pole increased, and civilians were then targeted. The goal was to kill non-Muslims. -
Centrazbat 1997
AKA: The Central Asian Battilion. Used to learn other nations' tactics in hopes of becoming a participant in the UN peacekeeping operations. Soldiers from the US, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Uzbekistan, Latvia, Georgia, Russia, and Turkey participated in the first set of exercises. -
Embassy Bombing in Kenya
Two Embassies of the United States, one located in Nairabi, Kenya, and the other in Dor Es Salaam, Tanzani, were attacked in coordinated truck bombings. -
Embassy Bombing in Tanzania
Hundreds of people killed in simutaneus truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the US in the east African citites of Dar es Salam and Nairobi. Date of bombings sparked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of American forces in Saudi Arabia. -
USS Cole Bombing
An attack on the United States Navy guided missle destroyer USS Cole, while it was harbored and being refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 sailors were killed, and 39 were injured. -
George W. Bush Becomes President
During the Bush Administration, the terrorist attacks made by Al-Qaeda were made against the U.S. Two planes were flown into the World Trade Center, one into the Pentagon, and one into a field in Pennsylvania. Bush maintained a desire to resume the peace process in Israel, he even proposed the creation of a Palestinian state before 2005. Bush also stated that the Uranium enrichment program in Iran was unacceptable and that the US will not allow them to possess a nuclear weapon. -
World Trade Center
A total of four coordinated terrorist attacks launched by the Islamic terrorist gorup Al-Qaeda. Four passenger planes were hijacked. Two of those planes, American Airlines flight 11 and United Airlines flight 175, were crashed into the Twin Towers. Within two hours, both buildings collapsed with debris and fire -
Iraq War
An armed conflict in Iraq that consisted of two phases. the first was an invasion of Iraq starting on March 3rd, 2003 by an invasion force of the united states and allies that led to the enad of Ba'athist Iraq.
