Events
Palestine becomes British TerritoryPalestine get split
into two states:
Palestine (Arab)
Israel (Jewish)Israel declares Independence
from Britain and from Palestine
RESULT: 5 Wars between Palestine and IsraelAyatollah Khomeini:
exiled from Iran
-continues opposition
of the Shah's regimeProtests against
the Shah begin
=Shah flees IranAyatollah Khomeini Returns:
welcomed by 3 million IraniansAyatollah Khomeini:
Becomes the Supreme Leader
of Iran until his death in 1989Iranian Students storm
the US Embassy and take
52 US hostagesShah dies in EgyptIran Hostage
Crisis EndsIraq invades Iran
due to fear of Shia
UprisingIran regains all
land and war ends
RESULTS:
Bloody StalemateIran-Iraq War ENDS
RESULTS:
1 million
dead/woundedPersian Gulf War Begins:
Iraqi occupation
in Kuwait needed to end.
Those involved:
USA, Saudi Arabia, UK, EgyptOil Burning &
Desert Storm
-finally pushes Iraq
out of KuwaitWar on Terror Begins
with 9/11 in NYCFinal POWs from
Iran-Iraq War tradedIraq War Begins
-Weapons of Mass Destruction (never found)
-Saddam Hussein helped Al Qaeda (never proved)Iraq War EndsPeriods
Palestinian-Israeli ConflictIranian Revolution of 1979Iran-Iraq WarPersian Gulf WarWar on TerrorIraq War
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