great power involvement Flashcards
Anglo Persian oil company
1909
Encouraged Arab leaders to overthrow the Turks
1916
McMahon Hussein correspondence expressed British support for Arab independence
1915
Sykes Picot agreement between Britain and France to carve up Arab lands
1916
Balfour decleration promised British support for a Jewish homeland
1917
France invaded Syria and expelled Faisal who was made king of Iraq
1921
Uprising against British rule in Iraq
1920
Britian suppressed the Arab rebellion, helped train and organise the Haganah
1936
Peel commission
1937
British government white paper declaring restricted Jewish immigration and an independent Palestine in 10 years
1939
US Biltmore decleration support for Jewish commonwealth in Palestine due to ‘Jewish lobby’
1942
Zionist conference decided on a policy of active opposition to British rule
1945
Attack on king david hotel British military hq
1947
UN partition plan
1947
Creation of the state of Israel drew the superpowers into the politics of the middle east
1948
Mossadeq coup replaced with pro Western leader in Iran and maintain control over Iranian oil
1953
Baghdad pact
1955
Czech arms deal
1955
Eisenhower doctrine
1957
Suez crisis, GB cancelled loans to Egypt to fund Aswan Dam after arms deal
1956
Six day war America takes a pro Israeli stance, US airlift
1967
USSR alliance with Syria Baathist regime
1960
Iraqi revolution overthrew British imposed monarchy
1958
Soviet Egyptian treaty of friendship
1971
US airlift in Yom kippur war
1973
Oil embargo on US for maintaining support for Israel
1973
Iran Iraq war foreign support for Iraq US feared Iranian control of oil
1980-88
Iranian revolution
1979
Gulf war US led forces which drove Iraqi’s out of Kuwait
1991
Oslo accords
1993+1995
Camp david
2000
War on terror
2001
Road map for peace
2003
US led invasion of Iraq to overthrow Hussein’s regime
2003
Arab spring
2011
Final US troops left Iraq
2011
