Influential Leaders
Idi Amin
President of Uganda
1922
Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
Suez Canal
Egypt and Isreal
Kuwait
Country that Iraq invaded in 1991
Zionists
Desire for independant Isreal state
David Ben Gurion
Founder of the State of Isreal
1991
First Gulf War
Disputed Arab Land
Isreal vs Syria
Ottoman Empire
Who rules the Middle East until 1922
PLO
desire for Independant Palestinian State
Nelson Mandela
Who was imprisoned during Apartheid
1948
Isreal declares independance and the first Arab Isreal war
Kuwait
United States of America and Iraq
Arab and Jewish
Palestine divided into 2 regions by the UN
African National Congress
Ethnic violence and segregation
Gamal Abdel Nasser
President of Egypt
1973
Yom Kippur War
Afghanistan in the 1980s
Russia and the Mujahideen
Spain, Germany, France and England
Countries that had colonies in Africa before 1945
The United States in Kuwait
To free Kuwait from Saddam Hussein
Lester B. Pearson
Who is credited as ending the Suez Crisis
1798
Napolean brings French interest to Egypt and Syria
Civil War in Rwanda
Hutu and the Tutsis
The Gaza Strip
Current disputed land between Isreal and the Palestinian Authority
The West Bank
Disputed land that the Palestinians feel belong to them