Iran and Iraq

Question 1

Reza Pahlavi Shah comes to power

Answer 1

1925

Question 2

Iran as world’s 4th largest oil producer

Answer 2

1930

Question 3

Oil industry in Iran controlled by

Answer 3

Anglo-Iranian oil company

Question 4

Mosaddeq comes to power

Answer 4

1951

Question 5

Mosaddeq Coup

Answer 5

Operation Ajax, 1953

Question 6

Iranian Secret Police

Answer 6

SAVAK

Question 7

Consortium Agreement

Answer 7

1954
Western companies to have 50% ownership of Iranian oil production

Question 8

USA economic aid to Iran

Answer 8

$1.2 billion for 10 years

Question 9

Iran increase in oil revenues

Answer 9

1954: $34 million
1956: $181 million

Question 10

White Revolution

Answer 10

1963-79

Question 11

Mullahs

Answer 11

Iranian Shia Clergy

Question 12

Ayatollah Khomeini exiled

Answer 12

1964

Question 13

Iranian Revolution

Answer 13

1979

Question 14

Cinema Rex Fire

Answer 14

Aug 1978
400 killed

Question 15

Shah flees to the USA for cancer treatment

Answer 15

Jan 1979

Question 16

Iran Hostage Crisis

Answer 16

Nov 1979
52 Americans held for 444 days

Question 17

Iraqi Independence

Answer 17

1932

Question 18

Iraqi Petroleum Company agrees to split profits with Iraqi government

Answer 18

1952

Question 19

Hashemite Monarchy Overthrown

Answer 19

14 July Revolution - Abd al-Karim Qasim as PM
1958

Question 20

Iraq withdrew from Baghdad Pact

Answer 20

1959

Question 21

Baathists overthrow Qasim

Answer 21

Ramadan Revolution - Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr as PM
8 Feb 1963

Question 22

Baathists Seize Power

Answer 22

17 July Revolution
1968

Question 23

Iraq Oil Industry nationalised

Answer 23

1972

Question 24

Saddam Hussein as President

Answer 24

1979

Question 25

Saddam Hussein’s Purge

Answer 25

22 July 1979

Question 26

Saddam deports Shiites to Iran

Answer 26

1980-81: 1.2 million