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History Final Multiple Choice Flashcards

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Ottoman officer who founded the Republic of Turkey and became its first president

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Kemal Mustafa Ataturk

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Persian ruler who agreed to the D’Arcy oil concession with Britain in 1901

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Muzzafir ad-Din Shah

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Officer who seized control of Persia in 1921 and claimed the title of Shah in 1925

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Reza Khan Pahlavi Shah

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British High Commissioner of Palestine

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Sir Herbert Samuel

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Name for the Jewish settler community in the British Mandate of Palestine

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Yishuv

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Jewish defense force created to protect settlers in Palestine

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Haganah

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Leader of the Revisionist Zionist movement

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Vladimir Jabotinsky

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Founder of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. He was assassinated in 1948

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Hassan al-Banna

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Egyptian officer who led the 1952 coup that toppled the Wafd government

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Gamal Nasser

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Egyptian general who was installed as the first president of the Egyptian republic after the 1952 coup

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Muhammad Naguib

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Countries that tried to capture the Suez Canal after Egypt nationalized it in 1956

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Britain, France, and Israel

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Country that merged with Egypt in 1958 for the United Arab Republic

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Syria

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US-led treaty organization created in 1954-55 in the Middle East intended to contain the Soviet Union. Egypt refused to join.

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Baghdad Pact

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Arab nationalist party founded by Michel Aflaq and Salah al-Din al-Britar in Syria in 1946

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Ba’ath Partyd

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The presidency of Lebanon is filled by members of this religious denomination according to the National Pact

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Maronite Christian

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Movement that historically supported the Saudi family in Arabia

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Wahhabi

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Royal family that rules Arabia

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Saudi

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Iraqi general who overthrew Faysal II in a coup in Iraq in 1958

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Abd al-Karim Qasim

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Population in northern Iraq that makes up 20-25% of the country. Qasim, the Arifs. and Saddam Hussein all fought bloody wars to suppress them.

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Kurds

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President from the Turkish Democratic Party who replaced the Republican People’s Party president in the 1950 election

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Celal Bayar

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Turkish prime minister who was hanged after the 1960 coup

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Adnan Menderes

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Iranian crown prince placed on the throne after the British removed his father from power in 1941

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Muhammad Reza Pahlavi

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Iranian prime minister from the Tudeh Party who nationalized Iranian oil but was deposed in a coup engineered by the CIA

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Muhammad Mossadeq

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Islamic cleric who criticized the Iranian monarchy and engineered the Islamic revolution of 1979 in Iran

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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Arab-Israeli war that left Israel in control of the Sinai Peninsula and West Bank

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1967 Six-Day War

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Egyptian official who succeed Gamal Nasser as president in 1970

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Anwar Sadat

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Israeli political power that supplanted the Labour Party in the 1970’s

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Likud

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Palestinian who led the PLO starting in 1969

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Yasser Arafat

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Druze leader who created a political coalition called the Lebanese National Movement

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Kemal Jumblatt

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Israeli general who masterminded Israel’s victory in the 1967 war, but was also complicit in allowing Phalange fighters to massacre Palestinian refugees at Sabra and Shatila

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Ariel Sharon

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Country invaded by Saddam Hussein in 1990 leading to the First Gulf War

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Kuwait

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Ethnic group protected by the UN no-fly zone in northern Iraq after the First Gulf War

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Kurds

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Israeli prime minister whose assassination in 1995 harmed the implementation of the Oslo Peace Accords between Israel and the Palestinians

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Yitzhak Rabin

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Al-Qaeda leader who was the mastermind of the 9/11 attacks

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Osama bin Laden

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Nation from which the majority of the 9/11 suicide bombers came

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Saudi Arabia

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US prison in Iraq that was the site of torture and prisoner abuse

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Abu Ghraib

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North African country that sparked the Arab Spring with protests

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Tunisia

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Egyptian president who stepped down due to the demonstration in the Tahrir Square

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Hosni Mubarak

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Syrian president who had held onto power through a brutal civil war

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Bashar al-Assad

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Nation that backs the Shi’ite Houthis in the civil war in Yemen

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Iran

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