Arab-Israeli Conflict Flashcards
Iran’s leader?
Embraced Western government and wealthy oil companies
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
Nationalist in Iran unite under this Prime Minister?
Prime Minister Muhammad Mossaddeq
Conservative Muslim leaders
Socially/morally corrupted Western Ideas
Wants Iran to be a republic by Islamic Law
Ayatollah
Leader of the religious opposition in Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini
Legal code for Iran
Islamic Law
Iranians are ___
Shi’a
Iraqis are ___
Sunni
Governed Iraq as a secular state
Saddam Hussein
Rebels of Afghanistan
Mujahideen
Roots of the Arab-Israeli conflict?
Ancient Jerusalem being conquered in 70
Year that Ancient Israel becomes Palestine?
70
What year does Palestine become Modern Israel?
1948
Jewish people “disperse” to escape persecution
Diaspora
Movement to found homeland for Jewish people
Zionism
Founder of Zionism?
Theodore Herzl
A letter aimed at Jewish support for Allies in WWI from Britain
The Balfour Declaration
Reasons for the establishment of Israel?
Ancient homeland of Jews
Need homeland to escape persecution
Jews helped to establish a Palestine
Arguments against the establishment of Israel?
Arab land for hundreds of years
Majority is Arab
No reason to be blamed/punished since they had nothing to do with persecutions
Prime Minister of Israel?
David Begin
Years of the Arab-Israeli war?
1948
1956
1967
1973
1973 war b/w Arab and Israeli called?
Yumcapore War
Loss of Arab land?
Means catastrophe
Al Nakba