The Kurds
Name one country the Kurds inhabit
What are
Turkey, Syria, Iran, Iraq, Armenia?
The way Saddam Hussein dealt with opposers
what is executing and imprisoning opponents?
the year the Iran revolution began
when was 1979?
The year the ceasefire was imposed
what was 1988?
The percentage of the Syrian population the Kurds make up?
what is 5-10%?
The leader of the PKK
Who is Abdullah Ocalan?
Two good things Saddam Hussein did for Iran during his rule
what are improving health care and education in Iran and taking over oil?
Two things the US did in retaliation to losing control over Iran ruling
what were?
persuading western countries not to buy Iranian oil
and not allowing american technicians to work with the new Iranian oil company?
Irans state when it signed the ceasefire
What was?
Their economy was in ruins
Thousands dead
The people in our group who explained the quotes of Saddam Hussein
Who are Pietro and Karen?
The treaty which made a provision for a Kurdish state and the treaty that did not create one.
what are the Treaty of Sevres and the Treaty of Lousanne?
The person Saddam Hussein gained help from to chemically bombard the Kurds
Who was Chemical Ali?
The reason the Shah left in 1979
what was going to receive cancer treatment?
Iraqs state when it signed the ceasefire
What was?
Thousands dead
Bad living conditions
And bad political and economical shape
The colors of the Kurdistan flag (shown within the slides)
Red, white, green, yellow
Two ways the Turkish government treated the Kurds harshly
What were the banning of Kurdish names, clothing and language?
the party Saddam Hussein belonged to and its ideology
what are the Baath part and socialism (similar to communism)?
What was the main reason of the Iranian revolution
Iranians wanted control of their oil
The explanation of the stalemate
400: within a month from the start of the war, 1980, the iranian troops halted the iraqi forces in the desert. The so called “war of the cities,” in which the two sides bombed each other, caused an incredible amount of deaths. Iraq had a stronger army but iran had a larger population willing to become martyrs. Within two years, iran regained its land and cut off iraq’s access to the sea and 1984 we have trench warfare in the desert
The year Saddam Hussein was hanged
When was 2006?
The things that have happened in the past three week to the Kurds
what is receiving opposition from Turkey and being abandoned by the USA?
The similarities between Saddam Hussein and Stalin's ruling
What was?
Using terror to enforce submission
Both made themselves seem glorious in the eyes of the public
Three reasons the white revolution was a failure
the reforms made by the Shah were inadequate
infant mortality rates were still high
water, good roads and electricity were not properly supplied
adult illiteracy rates remained high
redistributing land failed
foreign involvement
500: most of the foreign powers supported iraq because they feared and disagreed with iran’s revolutionary idea of shiite islam. Saudi arabia, egypt, small gulf states and jordan sided with iraq. Jordan also provided a port for iraqi imports and exports. Syria sided with iran because of its rivalry with neighbouring iraq and because it would recieve free iranian oil if it closed iraqi oil pipes which went to the mediterranean. France, Ussr, Germany and USA sided with iraq; france became the main supplier of weapons for iraq, while USA provided information on iranian troops movements and supplied the materials to produce chemical weapons. In 1986 and onwards USA provided protection for iraqi shipping and destroyed iranian navy, even as a retaliation for the attacks on the Kuwaiti navy
Spell the name of the man who turned Iran into an Islamic state and came into power in 1979
Ayatollah Khomeini