great power involvement

Question 1

Anglo Persian oil company

Answer 1

1909

Question 2

Encouraged Arab leaders to overthrow the Turks

Answer 2

1916

Question 3

McMahon Hussein correspondence expressed British support for Arab independence

Answer 3

1915

Question 4

Sykes Picot agreement between Britain and France to carve up Arab lands

Answer 4

1916

Question 5

Balfour decleration promised British support for a Jewish homeland

Answer 5

1917

Question 6

France invaded Syria and expelled Faisal who was made king of Iraq

Answer 6

1921

Question 7

Uprising against British rule in Iraq

Answer 7

1920

Question 8

Britian suppressed the Arab rebellion, helped train and organise the Haganah

Answer 8

1936

Question 9

Peel commission

Answer 9

1937

Question 10

British government white paper declaring restricted Jewish immigration and an independent Palestine in 10 years

Answer 10

1939

Question 11

US Biltmore decleration support for Jewish commonwealth in Palestine due to ‘Jewish lobby’

Answer 11

1942

Question 12

Zionist conference decided on a policy of active opposition to British rule

Answer 12

1945

Question 13

Attack on king david hotel British military hq

Answer 13

1947

Question 14

UN partition plan

Answer 14

1947

Question 15

Creation of the state of Israel drew the superpowers into the politics of the middle east

Answer 15

1948

Question 16

Mossadeq coup replaced with pro Western leader in Iran and maintain control over Iranian oil

Answer 16

1953

Question 17

Baghdad pact

Answer 17

1955

Question 18

Czech arms deal

Answer 18

1955

Question 19

Eisenhower doctrine

Answer 19

1957

Question 20

Suez crisis, GB cancelled loans to Egypt to fund Aswan Dam after arms deal

Answer 20

1956

Question 21

Six day war America takes a pro Israeli stance, US airlift

Answer 21

1967

Question 22

USSR alliance with Syria Baathist regime

Answer 22

1960

Question 23

Iraqi revolution overthrew British imposed monarchy

Answer 23

1958

Question 24

Soviet Egyptian treaty of friendship

Answer 24

1971

Question 25

US airlift in Yom kippur war

Answer 25

1973

Question 26

Oil embargo on US for maintaining support for Israel

Answer 26

1973

Question 27

Iran Iraq war foreign support for Iraq US feared Iranian control of oil

Answer 27

1980-88

Question 28

Iranian revolution

Answer 28

1979

Question 29

Gulf war US led forces which drove Iraqi's out of Kuwait

Answer 29

1991

Question 30

Oslo accords

Answer 30

1993+1995

Question 31

Camp david

Answer 31

2000

Question 32

War on terror

Answer 32

2001

Question 33

Road map for peace

Answer 33

2003

Question 34

US led invasion of Iraq to overthrow Hussein's regime

Answer 34

2003

Question 35

Arab spring

Answer 35

2011

Question 36

Final US troops left Iraq

Answer 36

2011