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A group of Arab member states formed in 1945 with British support.
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North and South Korea divide.
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September 2, 1945
The Axis powers( Germany, Japan..) finally surrender. -
Winston Churchill made a speech about the Iron Curtain in America.
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President Harry S. Truman pledged to contain Soviet threat towards Greece and Turkey.
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The UN approved a plan for partition of the British Mandate for Palistene.
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This was a plan from america, to help and aid Western Europe(Non- communist) so that they could stop the spread of communism.
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Jews from the city of Tel Aviv celebrate the proclamation of the new state, Israel.
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Britain ended it's Palestine Mandate and left and Israel became an independent state.
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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.
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Israel won a decisive victory.
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A formation of a full fledged military alliance that is against communism.
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North Korea invaded South Korea with the soviets help.
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Truman sends air and naval support for South Korea.
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China and USSR join fight in the Korean war on the North Koreans side.
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The outspoken nationalist leader Mohammed Mossadeq was appointed premier, taking power from the shah of Iran.
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Nasser helped to lead a military coup that toppled the government.
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They signed a peace treaty and the war ended.
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North Vietnam( with USSR and China) and South Vietnam( with US and Philippines) are fighting.
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Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal.
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President Nasser seized the Suez Canal from Britain and France. This created tension in the regions.
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The Soviets and the U.S had a race of who could launch the first satellite and the soviets won. ( Sputnik 1)
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Syria joined with Egypt to form a new state, the UAR( United Arab Republic).
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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.
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The U.S launched a rocket to the moon and landed the first man on the moon.( Neil Armstrong )
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Syria pulled out of UAR and the union collapsed.
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Nasser sends troops to Yemen to fight in the civil war.
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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.
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Israel defeated Arab forces and occupied territory,
1982 the Israelis return the SinaiPeninsula of Egypt. -
Nasser dies from a heart attack.
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Egypt and Syria launched the fourth Arab-Israeli war.
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Sadat stunned the world by visiting Jerusalem and speaking before the Israeli parliament.
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The shah left Iran to the US for medical treatments and never returned. Millions of Iranians flooded the streets in joyous celebration.
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Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq.
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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.
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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.
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Israel invades Lebanon during the middle of a civil war to strike at PLO bases.
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Intifada, a Palestinian terrorist group known as Hamas was established.
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Iraq invaded the small Persian Gulf nation of Kuwait and quickly captured its capital, Kuwait City.
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It started from an attack in Iran and it's forces in Kuwait and then the ground war began.
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A coalition of forces led by the United States drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait.
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Saddam Hussein was given a deadline to withdraw from Kuwait, but he refused.
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Secret negotiations between Israel and the PLO in Oslo, Norway, produced the Oslo Accords.
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1995, Yitzhak was attending a peace rally when a man pulled out a gun and shot him in the back.
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Violence increased in 2000, and was known as the second Intifada.
