gulf Flashcards

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what were two reasons For attention in the gulf?

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1979 The Iranian revolution
Iran monarchy ended when the Shah( monarchy) left the country, due to the people thinking that they were corrupt as they were supported by USA. he was replaced by the leader of the Islamic revolution in Iran. Ayatollah khomeini
Shia and Sunni Muslims
Muslims were divided into two sections after the death of the prophet Mohamed . these two sections were known as Shia and sunni. By the 1980s, she is formed around 15% of the world’s population. Iran was shia and iraq was sunni which lead to the iran iraq war

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Why did the Iran Iraq war start?

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Iran was shia and Iraq was sunni these divisions are of the main reasons that let you the Iran Iraq war

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What was the Israel Palestine conflict?

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The state of Israel was created in 1948. However, countries such as Egypt, Jordan, and Iraq, and Syria, and Lebanon, were against Croatian. This was due to a combination of religious approval to the creation of a Jewish country as there had not been a Jewish country in the Middle East since the first century. The loss of territories that the creation of Israel had caused, caused anger
Despite military campaigns against it in 1948, 1956 and 1973, Israel had survived and expanded its territory into the west bank called Gazza strip
The camp, David agreement, 1978 to 1979 letter peace between Egypt and Israel, which, and good most of the Arab leaders and PLO( palastine liberal organisation)

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What were the consequences for the Israel Palestine conflict?

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The support provided for Israel by the western countries, feud, resentment and distrust. In many Muslim majority countries, particularly relating the financial and military assistance given to Israel by the USA.
One of the reasons for the Al Qaeda, 911 shifting aggression towards USA was because they helped Israel
loss of land

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he was shia and sunni between ayatollah komeini and sudan hussein

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khomeini = iran = shia
suddam =iraq=sunni

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What were Iran’s consequences for Iran Iraq war?

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iran failed to remove saddam from power
1 million deaths
Huge military expenditure and declining oil sales Tanker War = bankruptcy
not able to spread its form of shia Revolution

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what were Iraqs Consequences during the Iraq, Iran war

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iraq oil revenues had been cut by 50%, and foreign debts with Kuwait, which were 40 billion which caused them to have low money
50,000 dead
armed forces suffered, pulling desert war, due to the aerial bombing and use of chemical weapons

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When was the Iran Iraq war?

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1980s

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What was the causes for the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979

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1979 Soviet forces(the USSR) wanted to spread their communist government and they wanted to introduce it into Afghanistan
believed in secularism

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what was the reason for the USSR to withdraw as forces in 1988

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USSR founded difficult to get rid of the rebel groups in Afghanistan( mujahidin) as the USA would fund them

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when did the Soviet forces withdraw from Afghanistan?

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1989

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What’s the weather consequences of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?

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The growth of the Mujahideen, such as the Al Qaeda being formed

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what were the causes for the gulf war ?
kuwaits wealth
ambition for status

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Kuwait wealth
Iraq had an army of around 1 million the takeover of Kuwait-an oil rich country– would mean that if they owned kuwait thag they would reduce their financial problems significantly
Create an Saudi Arabia had learned Iraq, 40 billion during its war with Iran so if he invaded Saddam could deal with inflation and money, problems and Iraq
saddam was also suspicious that that kuwait had boosted its Oil production beyond the OPEC quotes(organisation of the petroleum exporting country)
Ambition for status and power
So don’t thought that again in Kuwait territory and coastline would be a great propaganda victory for him over his people – this is because he was aware of opposition groups who were planning to overthrow his leadership . Therefore, to divert attention away from the impact of the 8yr warfare.
Saddam justified that the invasion by claiming that Kuwait was historically part of Iraq. Kuwait had once phoned part of the providence of Basra during the Turkish rule.

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what happened during the gulf war? Evans

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1990- Saddam Hussein’s forces attacked and occupied Kuwait. He had announced that Kuwait had been Iraq, 19th Providence.
1991- operation desert storm began two days after the deadline for Iraq withdrawal from Kuwait had passed
Operation concluded when bush creates liberation

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what are the consequences for the gulf war?

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Iraq was forced to comply with UN resolution 687 – the elimination of biological and chemical weapons and the abundant of its nuclear weapons
Iraqi lost 90,000, including 10,000 killed during the retreats to Basara, called the highway of death
Price inflation was out of control for Iraq and Iraq. Imports will blockaded
No flying zones over Iraqi space, preventing further attacks on curbs and shia groups in the south

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What’s the were the causes of the Al Qaeda and the attack on 911

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Israel
decades of US support of Israel, and the Jewish occupation of Palestinian land was a key message, driving fundamental ideology and literature . Osama bin Laden believe that if his campaign against the USA had a wide prospective, because he thought that if the west support for Israel could be weakened that there could be a chance of advancing the cause for Palestinians
policeman
As the US would occur in many wars such as the Cold War that they were called the world policeman. this field anti American resentment such as Al Qaeda
presents in the Middle East
As there was many US trips stationed in the Middle East, such as Turkey, which contains two aircraft and forces in Saudi Arabia (the homeland of Osama bin Laden). Osama bin projected A jiHadi propaganda wish it claimed that true believers would rebel against them

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what happened during 911?

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On 11th of September 2001 four planes were hijacked and planned to hit four key cities in USA. three hits the target, the north and south Towers of the centre of the US department of defence building known as the pentagon the fourth crushed On the route to its target, which was assumed the White House
Little over 90 minutes birth tower collapsed

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What were the consequences for 911?

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Financial damage $10-$15 billion
3000 people perished wild, 6000 were injured
George W. Bush launched the war on terror as he demanded justice for 911.

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causes of the afghanistan war

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due to 9/11 2001
America wanted to drive out thr taliban as they owned four fifth of afganistan.
unfair treatment of women due to sharia law
taliban abuse of human rights.
rogue state as the western government believed that the taliban were sponsering violent jihad as well as strenthning alqaeeda.
UN reports on that the taliban were accused ethnic cleansing, war crimes and human traficking.

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what were the consequences of the Afganistan War?

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after the taliban regeim collapsed, a UN conference happend where they transitioned a new government to Afganistan based on a democratic model and free elections
Afganistan remained very poor despite international aid
the faliure to dismantle the taliban after the afganistan war led to the taliban regrouping again my mullah omar who established training camps, gurella attack and suicide attacks
NATO had to send troops each successive year as the number of terrorist fights in afganistan was on the rise.

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what were the causes of the Iraq war?

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saddam had a proven history of attaempting to build weapons of mass distruction. they also had urainium and other biological weapons. 2002 the uk and us intelligence suspected that they might have weapons of mass destruction which would be ready to use in 2- years.
saddam had also continued to call for jihad to liberate palestine and destroy israili state. the extreme hatred for the israli state and us allie arised suspicion.
saddams tight grip on iraq caused more agressive propaganda which was aimed at the west.
late 1900 the un inspecter checkers would be forced out by saddams supporters which was against the rules of the UN.

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consequences of iraq war?

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2004 an interam gov was bought to remain order and stability in iraq
6% of the population in iraq was malnorished.
US kept on planting troops such as in 2007.
insergents kept on happening as saddam lost his powers and his supporters were angry. protests kept happening.Incidents such as bombings, assassinations, and ambushes attributed to insurgent groups serve as direct evidence of ongoing insurgency.