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Balfour Declaration
A letter from the United Kingdom's foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothchild, a leader of the British Jewish Community for transmission to te Zionist Feredal of G.B. and Ireland. Great Britain would support the creation of a Jewish state in the Middle East. -
Palestine Becomes British Mandate
A legal commission for the administration of the territory that had formerly constituted the Ottoman Empire sanjaks. The Ottoman Empire had been in control of the Middle East since the 16th century. The isrealis wanted their own state and wanted Palestine back from the Muslims and Britain would back them up and help them get their own state in the Middle East. -
Holocaust
Also known as "Shoah" was a genocide in which approximately 6 million Jews that were killed by the Nazi regime, under Adolf Hitler. Mostly all Jews were targetted because they were for anti-semitism. This relates to the Middle East because almost every country in the Middle East were either Jewish or Muslim. And Hitler killed off many of the Jews. -
6 Day War
Isreal seized the Gaza Strip and Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, Golah Heights from Syria, and the West Bank and eastern Jerusalem from Jordan. -
Yom Kippur War
Occurred between isreal and Arab nations, sometimes known as Ramadam War or October War. Only lasting for 19 days, can also be seen as part of Arab-Isreal war. The Arab nations of Syria, Egypt and Jordan decided they wanted their lost land back so they attack Isreal. U. S. aids Isreal and they win. -
Arab Oil Embargo
Cessation of oil exports from Arab states to the U.S. that supplied the Isreali military as a result of American support of Isreal during Yom Kippur war. It was a direct result of U.S. being involved in and supporting Isreal. -
Alaskian Pipeline
Trans-Alaska crude-oil pipeline, 11 pump stations, several hundred miles of feeder pipelines, and the Valdez Marine Terminal. Also known asTAPS is one of the world's largest pipeline systems. It is 800 miles of pipeline with the diameter of 48 inches that conveys oil from Prudhoe Bay, to Valdez, Alaska. It was built after 1973 oil crisis causing oil prices to go up in America. It was built only after the oil crisis provoked the passage of legislation designed to remove legal challenges. -
Camp David Accords
Signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Isreali Prime Minister Menachem Begin, following 13 days of secret negotiations of Camp David. It was signed at the Whitehouse and witnessed by president Jimmy Carter. This was to renew friendship between Egypt and Isreal. Isreal now believes that it is its own state. -
Jimmy Carter Becomes President
One big thing Jimmy Carter's did in his presidency was that he made peace again between Isreal and Egypt. He set up a peace conference at Camp David Accords between the Isreali Prime Minister and Egyptian Presdent. Egypt had agreed that Isreal could be its own state and Isreal had decided to give back the Sinai Peninsula back to Egypt. -
Iran Hostage Crisis
Diplomatic crisis between Iran and the United Stated. Fifty two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days. It had to do with United States siding with Isreal and the Middle East taking the privlages of U.S. using oil. -
Ronald Reagan Becomes President
In Afghanistan, the Reagan administration began providing limited covert military assistance to Afghanistan's mujahideen in an effort to drive the Soviets out of the nation, or at least raise the military and political cost of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan. The policy of aiding the mujahideen in their war against the Soviet occupation was originally proposed by Carter's national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski and was implemented by U.S. intelligence services. It enjoyed broad bipart -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
It was found between the Soviets and Afghan forces against multiple national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen. Caused Afghans to flee the country, mostly to Pakinstan and Iran. This caused drastic changes in the Middle East. -
Goerge H. W. Bush Becomes President
Ironically, the Middle East was not expecting to play a major role in the Bush 41 presidency. The one possible exception was trying to broker peace between Isreal and the Palestinians and/or Syria. Iran and Iraq, the region's principal contenders for power, had just ended eight years of brutal warfare. Sifting through the ashes of devastated cities, recovering from the hundreds of thousands of dead and wounded, and beginning of the slow process of social and economic rebuilding would, it was pre -
Desert Storm
Also known as Gulf War. At 2:38 A.M. U.S Apache Helicopter attack started in Iraq. Saddam Hussein then shot back SCUD missles at Israel and nations supporting America. This war started because Saddam Hussein acussed Kuwait of producing too much oil and of stealing oil. We defeaded them because we had two billion dollars worth of weaponry there. -
Bill Clinton Becomes President
Clinton wanted to focus on domestic policy and not foreign policy except when it affected American economy. He was the main enforcer for United Nations directives against Iraq, including economic sanctions, military no-fly zones, and weapons inspection teams. But Saddam Hussein obstructed these goals, resulting in a series of U.S.-led missile strikes. He operated Operation Desert Fox and he welcomed Israeli and Palestinian leaders to the White House to sign the Oslo Accords which later failed. -
World Trade Center 1993
A truck bomb was found below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. The gas enhanced device was intended to knock the North Tower into the South Tower, bringing both towers down and killing tens of thousands of people. It failed to do so, but did kill six people and injured more than a thousand. The attack was planned by a group of terrorists. -
Centrazbat
A peace keeping to provide peace and stability in Central Asia. Centrazbat has held multi-national exercises in Central Asia. Involving the Middle East nations of Kazahstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. -
Embassy Bombing in Kenya
A series of attacks that occured, in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the U.S. in East Africa. Osama Bin Laden asked Muslims around Middle East to attack U.S. citizens. The embassies were bombed 6 months later. -
Embassy Bombing in Tanzania
series of attacks in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the United States in the East African cities of Dar es Salaam and Nairobi. The date of the bombings marked the eighth anniversary of the arrival of American forces in Saudi Arabia. -
U.S.S. Cole
A suicide attack against the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole, while it was harbored and being refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. 17 American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured.This event was the deadliest attack against a United States Naval vessel since 1987. The terrorist organization al-Qaeda claimed responsibility for the attack. -
George W. Bush
During Desert Storm the president sends out a statement advising Saddam to withdrawal. He refuses and the U. S. started bolstering reserve forces for its army. They then attack on Jan. 7 and orders cease fire on Feb. 27. -
World Trade Center 2001
Aseries of four coordinating terrorist attacks launched by Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda upon the U.S, in New York City and Wshington D.C. The group leader was Osama Bin Laden. Can be traced back when Soviets invaded Afghanistan. -
Iraq 2001- present
Intervention by North Atlantic Treaty Organisation and allied forces in the ongoing Afghan civil war. The war followed the September 11 attacks, and its public aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda and denying it a safe basis of operation in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power. This contributed to the large deficits of the George W. Bush era.
