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Balfour Declaration
A letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that stated that England was in favor of a jewish state in Palestine. This would be a reason that the British were granted a mandate of the area in 1922. -
Palestine becomes British mandate
The League of Nations entrusted England with controlling the Transjordan area. While England was in control the Jewish area flourished economically. The Arab sector made slightly more than surrounding Arab nations. -
Holocaust
Was a Genocide of the Jews in Europe by the Nazi party. While this occured in Europe, many Jews fled to Palestine to escape persecution from the Nazi's. -
Six Day War
With high tensions between the countries Israel attacked Egypt by suprise catching them off guard they had to retreat out fo Sinai. Israelis continued to attack the retreating forces until they conquered the Gaza Strip as well. The Arabs suffered much greater losses than the Israelis due to the fact of suprise and poor leadership. -
Yom Kippur War
Also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, it was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel. Egypt's stated goal for the war was the expelling of the Israeli forces occupying Sinai. -
Arab Oil Embargo
The embargo was a response to American involvement in the 1973 Yom Kippur War. Six days after Egypt and Syria launched a surprise military campaign against Israel to regain territories lost in the June 1967 Six-Day War, the US supplied Israel with arms. In response to this, OAPEC announced an oil embargo against Canada, Japan, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the US. -
Alaskan Pipeline
The US wanted to become more independent with there source of oil so they drilled in Alaska because we could no longer have the middle east be are only source of oil the US had. -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter was the 39th President of the United States of America. He was the mediator that invited Israeli and Egyptian leaders to negotiate peace between them at Camp David. He was also the president durning almost all of the Iranian Hostage Crisis. -
Camp David Accords
A 12 day period of intense peace talks between Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. The signing of this treaty was the first of its kind and was called the framework for peace in the middle east. -
Iranian Hostage Crisis
A group of Iranian students stormed the U.S. Embassy in Terhan and took 90 people hostage and 66 Americans hostage for 444 days. All of the hostages were released after the inaguration speach of U.S. President Ronald Regan. -
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
This was the Soviets last military movement before their collapse. They invaded the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, and lead a political coup. This was to ensure that the communist revolution taking place would end with a communist leader in charge. This effort ultimatly failed when the islamic freedom fighters were backed by the U.S. and were able to fight off the Soviets. -
Ronald Reqagan
Ronald Reagan was the 40th President of the United States of America. He was largely involved in forgien affairs in the middle east. Including the release of the Iranian hostages, dealing with several middle eastern terrorist groups and sending U.S. troups to Lebanon. -
George H. W. Bush
George H. W. Bush was the 41st President of the United States of America. Bush's largest victory came when he organized a coalition of nations to remove Iraq from Kuwait. It was the largest U.S. military action since the Vietnam war. -
Desert Storm
Operation Desert Storm also known as the Gulf War, was a successful US allied response to Iraq's attempt to overwhelm neighboring country Kuwait. The US entered this war to make sure there oil sources weren't taken over by an outside force that wouldn't sell it to the US. -
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton was the 42nd President of the United States of America. During the Clinton administration he used diplomatic force instead of military force. He initiated economic sancions on Iran preventing any U.S. oil company to import oil from Iran. -
World Trade Center 1993
The attack was planned by a group of terrorists whos plan was to detonate a truck bomb under the North tower and have it fall and crash into the South Tower killing tens of thousands. The plan failed but they did kill 6 people and injure thousands. The terrorists desired to kill as many people as possible to get back at the US for aiding in the fights with Israel. -
Centrazbat
Centrazbat was a multinational event where other militaries would come and help run exercises that would make Centrazbat a military unit. Centrazbat was made up of Kazakhistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan. -
Embassy Bombing in Kenya
The bombing of this embassy took place 8 years to the day of U.S. troops being sent to Saudi Arabia. The mastermind of this attack, Osama Bin Laden, believed that the U.S. would have to pay for occupying Saudi Arabia. -
Embassy Bombing in Tanzania
The 1998 United States embassy bombings were a series of attacks in which hundreds of people were killed in simultaneous truck bomb explosions at the embassies of the United States in Dar es Salaam, the largest city of Tanzania. The attacks were linked to a local Egyptian Islamic Jihad and it was believed the attacks happened because the US was involved in the torture of 4 members of there Jihad who had been arrested in Albania earlier. -
U.S.S. Cole Bombing
The USS Cole bombing was 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. This attack was led by Al Qaeda and seen as a great victory for them. -
George W. Bush
George W. Bush was the 43rd President of the United States of America. Bush was the president during the September 11th terrorist attacks on The World Trade Center and The Pentagon. These attacks would prompt the U.S. to invade Afghanistan and in 2003 Iraq. -
World Trade Center 2001
Four commercial airline planes were hijacked by 19 islamic extremists and they used the planes to take down the World Trade Center in New York City. The attacks were claimed by Al-Qaeda, a terrosist organization based in the middle east, and by their leader Osama Bin Laden. -
Iraq 2001-Present
The war in Afghanistan is the period in which the United States invaded the country after the September 11 attacks, supported initially by close allies, and eventually by the wider North Atlantic Treaty Organization, beginning in 2003. -
ISIS
An Islamic extremist group that came from the Iraqi branch of Al-Qaeda. They are responsible for kidnappings, bombings, and beheadings. They have territory in Iraq and Syria that they hold to a very strict Islamic law. -
Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States of America. He successfully removed all U.S. troopd from Iraq and began to remove troops from Afghanistan. His largest military victory came on May 1, 2011 when he ordered the attack that killed Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al-Qaeda. -
U.S. Relations with the Middle East
The US finds Israel still very important to the overall policy in the middle east. Israel is the largest annual recipient of American aid since 1976 to 2004, the US provided $3.6 billion in foreign military aid to Israel. Israel also benefits from about $8 billion of loan guarantees. We are still very close with Israel to keep good ties in the middle east.
