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Question 1

What were some of NASA’s economic policies?

Answer 1

• Nationalise Suez Canal
• re distribution of wealth
• Landform set a role of a limited land ownership of 200 acres
• Confiscated land from the rich and gave it to the poor
• Expanded schools and hospitals

Question 2

What were some of NASA’s political policies?

Answer 2

• Suppress the media
• Heavily controlled the Arab radio
• One party state ( national union)
• ## severely limited parliament power

Question 3

What were some of NASA’s social policies?

Answer 3

• 1956 women were given the right to vote
• 1962 declared women were equal to men
• State education open to both genders
• 1957 two women elected to the National charter

Question 4

What were some of NASA’s religious policies?

Answer 4

• ban the Muslim brotherhood and hung six of them

Question 5

When was the free officers coup in Egypt?

Answer 5

1952

Question 6

When did NASA become president?

Answer 6

1954

Question 7

When was the Suez crisis?

Answer 7

1956

Question 8

When does Syria leave the UAR?

Answer 8

September 1961

Question 9

When was the UAR formed?

Answer 9

First of February 1958

Question 10

When was the formation of Fatah?

Answer 10

 October 1959

Question 11

 when was the Baghdad pact?
What was NASA’s reaction?

Answer 11

1955
- He was furious. He did not want any Arab states to join and he launched a massive propaganda campaign to prevent Iraq from joining.

Question 12

What was the voice of the Arabs?

Answer 12

Arab world’s biggest radio station

Question 13

When was the check arms deal?

Answer 13

September 1955

Question 14



Question 15

What was NASA’s main aim?

Answer 15

To be non aligned

Question 16

How did NASA express the Suez crisis?

Answer 16

That it was Egyptian resistance

Question 17

Why were a rat Jordan and Saudi Arabia cautious of NASA?

Answer 17

• They were conservative monarchies and were wary of NASA’s radical politics
• Afraid of international communism

Question 19

What were the dates of the united Arab Republic?

Answer 19

1958 to 1961

Question 20

What was the cause of formation of the united Arab Republic

Answer 20

USA was so afraid that Siri might become communist that they persuaded Turkey to move troops to its border with Syria NASA unleashed a barrage of propaganda against the USA. Convinced many pro-American Arabs to swim with the Arab nationalist tide 

Question 21

Why was NASA not enthusiastic about the UAR?

Answer 21

Siri had no common border with Egypt and it was completely different political and economic systems

Question 22

What was Syria ‘s population

Answer 22

4 million

Question 23

What was Egypt’s population?

Answer 23

26 million

Question 24

What did NASA mean by insisting that the political and economic systems of Syria would have to be merged with Egypt?

Answer 24

• Syria closing down its political parties to come in line with one party Egypt
• Bringing it to major industries and banks under government control

Question 25

When was the overthrow of the Iraqi monarchy?

Answer 25

July 1958

Question 26

Why did the UAR breakdown?

Answer 26

- Syrians being made to feel inferior NASA had imposed the Egyptian political system on Syria - The army and the government of the new Arab state were dominated by Egyptians - And land owners and businesses dislike NASA Arab socialism 

Question 27

What was the Muslim brotherhood?

Answer 27

- Founded in 1928 - Appeal to the urban masses who had no trade unions to represent them and were easily exploited

Question 28

In the 1950s what percentage of the population lived and worked on Egyptian land?

Answer 28

80%

Question 29

What did NASA nationalise by 1967?

Answer 29

- export of cotton - Banks - Many large industrial companies - Transport - The press

Question 30

What kind of regime did NASA impose?

Answer 30

Populist