The U.S and Middle East

By ReamVYX

  • fall of ottoman empire

    fall of ottoman empire
    During WW1 the Russians,British, and french declared war on the ottoman empire and defeated them.

  • U.S helps Turkey join NATO

    U.S helps Turkey join NATO
    The U.S helps Turkey join NATO.This helps strengthen NATO and they are now alliances. This helps Them Because they can be backed now by other countries when being attacked.

  • United nations partition plan

    United nations partition plan
    This plan divided 57% of land to Israel and 43%. This created to separate states for these two nationalities. The purpose was to stop the conflict between them.

  • CIA

    CIA
    Dwight Eisenhower ordered CIA to basically get rid of the leader of Iran Mohammed Mossadegh. They did this to help the french because the people of Iran did not like him for many reasons and he was getting worse day by day.

  • 1979 peace treaty between israel and egypt

    1979 peace treaty between israel and egypt
    Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty in 1979 over a long war that started in 1948 over the Sinai peninsula but now it is open.

  • Hostage crisis

    Hostage crisis
    Iran students took 63 Americans at the U.S embassy in Tehran. They were held hostage there over a year.But when Ronald Reagan was elected they were released.American military men tried to save them but it was not successful.

  • Truck bomb

    Truck bomb
    A Truck bomb hit the U.S embassy located in Lebanon and destroyed it, as a result it killed 63 people.

  • Iran-Contra Affair

    Iran-Contra Affair
    President Ronald Reagans organization was negotiating with Iran because they had U.S hostages in Iran. But the U.S president agreed to not to negotiate with terrorist.

  • Desert shield

    Desert shield
    Saddam Hussein was after Kuwait's oil because they had a lot of it. But The U.S went to Kuwait in part of operation desert shield. We helped drive Iraq out because Kuwait is one of our friends and we need them for oil.

  • peacemaker

    peacemaker
    Clinton tried to get the fighting to stop between Israel and Palestine and he made very good progress they signed some documents that led o a time of peace between the two countries but the combination of Israels leader being killed and Clinton's presidency ending a final document was never signed.

  • 9/11

    9/11
    A terrorist group named al-Qaeda attacked the world trade center in new York. This made us declare war on Afghanista.