modern middle east timeline

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  • Arab revolt in syria

    Arab revolt in syria
    The Arab Revolt was initiated by the Sherif Hussein ibn Ali with the aim of securing independence from the ruling Ottoman Turks and creating a single unified Arab state spanning from Aleppo in syria to Aden in Yemen.Revolt set by coup in 1908 in which the turkish nationalist reform party. young turks seized power from the old sultan Hamid 2 Ottoman politics changed and discrimination against non-Turkish inhabitants increased. The Ottomans joined the central powers in WW1 in 1914.

  • Fall of the ottoman empire

    Fall of the ottoman empire
    western European countries started waging war, they wanted power.In 1908, a group of western- influenced revolutionaries called the young Turks overthrew the sultan, and reestablihed European-style government.

  • iraq independence

    iraq independence
    Iraq gained its independence from Great Britain in 1932. But in the 1930s two dissident parties formed, the Communists and the Baathists. The communist influence came out of the Soviet Union. The Baathist party was a fascist organization very much along the lines of Hitler's Nazis. The main thrust of the two intellectuals that spawned the party, Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Bitar, was to form a greater Arab national entity under a firm leader

  • Kuwait independence

    Kuwait independence
    British government accepted Kuwaits demand. Diplomatic notes were exchanged between sir william luc, the british political resident in the Arabian Gulf at the time, and Sheikh Abdullah Al-salem Al-sabah ruler of kuwait. A draft constitution was approved on november 11 of 1961 outlining Kuwaits system of governance as a fully independant Arab state with a democratic style of government.

  • Iraq invasiion of Kuwait

    Iraq invasiion of Kuwait
    was a major conflict between the Republic of Iraq and the State of Kuwait which resulted in the seven-month long Iraqi occupation of Kuwait which subsequently led to direct military intervention by United States-led forces in the Persian Gulf War. And within two days of intense combat, most of the Kuwaiti Armed Forces were either overrun by the Iraqi Republican Guard or escaped to neighboring Saudi Arabia and Bahrain.