Notes taken from the history 12 website slide shows. Summary's are of my own words.
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Break Up of the ottoman empireIsrael War of independenceSummary:After the break up of the ottoman empire the british and the french begin to break up the land left. This break up of the land was part of the Sykes- Picot agreement Britain gets most of the land of what we know today to be bits of Iraq, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia. The French has bits of what we know today as Syria, Turkey, and Lebanon.
The Suez CrisisThe 6 days warCamp David AccordsIran-Iraq warSummary:Terrorism starts- hijacking of planes, ect.
Munich Olympics 1972 Nasser dies 1970 Anwar Sadat comes in as the new leader 1973 "year of decision" with Syria Sadat lanches an attack on Sinai Peninsula and Syria attacks Golan Heights Yom Kippur - soviets backs Syria and US backs Israel OPEC - declares economic warfare on US in 1973 - OPEC places oil embargo on the US |
Balfour DeclarationIsrael war of independence con'tSuez Crisis Con'tAnwar SadatPLOSummary:The PLO have nothing they have lost everything (they are stateless) when you have millions of people with nothing left to lose that is pretty dangerous. Nothing left nothing matters.The Suez canal was a way to be able to send ships down to south India without having to travel around south Africa. Camp David accords made an agreement between Egypt and Israel to not make war, negotiate refugee problem, Suez canal use, ect.
Saddam Hussein |