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The Arab Leage
A group of Arab member states formed in 1945 with British support. -
Dividing Korea
North and South Korea divide. -
WWII Ends
September 2, 1945
The Axis powers( Germany, Japan..) finally surrender. -
Creation of the Iron Curtain
Winston Churchill made a speech about the Iron Curtain in America. -
Truman Doctrine
President Harry S. Truman pledged to contain Soviet threat towards Greece and Turkey. -
Partition
The UN approved a plan for partition of the British Mandate for Palistene. -
Marshall Plan
This was a plan from america, to help and aid Western Europe(Non- communist) so that they could stop the spread of communism. -
Jews celebrate
Jews from the city of Tel Aviv celebrate the proclamation of the new state, Israel. -
Britain ended it's Palestine Mandate
Britain ended it's Palestine Mandate and left and Israel became an independent state. -
Arab Israeli Conflict
Palestinian Arabs and Jews both call Israel the land of ancestral home. Arabs didn't like that they got larger when they migrated to Palestine so the conflict began. -
Israel won
Israel won a decisive victory. -
Formation of NATO
A formation of a full fledged military alliance that is against communism. -
Korean War Starts
North Korea invaded South Korea with the soviets help. -
US helps Korea
Truman sends air and naval support for South Korea. -
China and USSR join
China and USSR join fight in the Korean war on the North Koreans side. -
Mohammed Mossadeq
The outspoken nationalist leader Mohammed Mossadeq was appointed premier, taking power from the shah of Iran. -
Nasser helped lead
Nasser helped to lead a military coup that toppled the government. -
Korean war Ends
They signed a peace treaty and the war ended. -
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Vietnam War
North Vietnam( with USSR and China) and South Vietnam( with US and Philippines) are fighting. -
Suez Canal
Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal. -
Suez Canal
President Nasser seized the Suez Canal from Britain and France. This created tension in the regions. -
Space race ( Soviets win )
The Soviets and the U.S had a race of who could launch the first satellite and the soviets won. ( Sputnik 1) -
UAR
Syria joined with Egypt to form a new state, the UAR( United Arab Republic). -
OPEC
Major oil producers formed the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC).And the first five members of OPEC were Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela. -
Space race ( U.S )
The U.S launched a rocket to the moon and landed the first man on the moon.( Neil Armstrong ) -
Syria pulled out of UAR
Syria pulled out of UAR and the union collapsed. -
Egypt
Nasser sends troops to Yemen to fight in the civil war. -
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Cuban Missile Crisis
USSR was bombing the US from Cuba and then US was bombing USSR From Cuba. Cuba didn't like it so the president and the Us president agreed to stop. -
Six Day War
Israel defeated Arab forces and occupied territory,
1982 the Israelis return the SinaiPeninsula of Egypt. -
Nasser dies
Nasser dies from a heart attack. -
Egypt and Syria
Egypt and Syria launched the fourth Arab-Israeli war. -
Sadat stunned everyone
Sadat stunned the world by visiting Jerusalem and speaking before the Israeli parliament. -
Celebration in Iran
The shah left Iran to the US for medical treatments and never returned. Millions of Iranians flooded the streets in joyous celebration. -
Saddam Hussein
Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq. -
Iraqi uprising
Iraqi leaders, fearing that the Iranian Revolution might spark a Shi’a uprising in their own country. And it went on for eight more years. -
Sadat Gets Assinated
In 1981, Anwar Sadat gets assassinated when he was watching a parade when a men jumped out of a truck and opened fire on him. -
Israel invades Leanon
Israel invades Lebanon during the middle of a civil war to strike at PLO bases. -
Intifada
Intifada, a Palestinian terrorist group known as Hamas was established. -
Iraq invaded Kuwait
Iraq invaded the small Persian Gulf nation of Kuwait and quickly captured its capital, Kuwait City. -
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Persian Gulf War
It started from an attack in Iran and it's forces in Kuwait and then the ground war began. -
Iraq is out of Kuwait
A coalition of forces led by the United States drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait. -
Saddam Hussein Refuses
Saddam Hussein was given a deadline to withdraw from Kuwait, but he refused. -
Oslo Accords
Secret negotiations between Israel and the PLO in Oslo, Norway, produced the Oslo Accords. -
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin Dies
1995, Yitzhak was attending a peace rally when a man pulled out a gun and shot him in the back. -
The second Intifada
Violence increased in 2000, and was known as the second Intifada.
