History Middle East A-Z

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First name of Nasser's second in command who took over following his death in 1970 and became the first Arab leader to visit Israel in 1977.

The Sunni muslim political group to which Saddam Hussein was a part of. They ruled Iraq from 1968 - 2003.

The country which Nasser's Egypt completed an arms deal with in 1955. This was seen as

Full name of the first Israeli Prime Ministe

In alphabetical order, the countries that Britain controlled in the Middle East directly after 1920 (According to textbook)

The king that France expelled from Syria in 1920 and who was subsequently made king of Iraq in 1921

This was fought from January-March 1991 by coalition forces to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi control

Jewish military group that became the IDF in May 1948

The name for the Palestinian uprising that burst out of Gaza and the West Bank in 1987

The river on which the West Bank region lies on. A middle eastern country takes its name from this river

Ayatollah who led Iran as the supreme leader from 1979 until his death in 1989

British major who aided the Arab Revolt in 1916 following the McMahon-Hussein Correspondence. Played by Peter O'Toole in a 1962 film

Islamic 'group of siblings' that were founded in 1928. Caused huge unrest in Syria in the late 1970s to early 1980s, culminating in the 1982 Hama massacre.

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Full name of the Prime Minister who issued the White Paper in 1939, limiting Jewish immigration into Palestine

The weapon used by Saudi Arabia and the other Arab oil states following Nixon's approval of $2.2 billion arms package to Israel in 1973

Group formed in Cairo in 1964 with the aim of unifying refugees and winning back land

Group led by Osama bin Laden who orchestrated 9/11

Israeli Prime Minister who was assassinated in 1995 following the peacemaking process with Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords

This was finished in 1869 and the focal point of Anthony Eden's premiership

Mustafa Ataturk led this country to become a republic and aimed to make them a secular state, the first in the Middle East

Organisation that Count Bernadotte worked for when he was assassinated in 1948 after proposing a two-state solution

Treaty that ended WW1 and which the Wafd Party of Egypt was allowed to attend, but by the time they arrived the USA had recognised British rule over Egypt

Zionist leader who worked hard to gain British support for a Jewish homeland resulting in the Balfour Declaration 1917. Also the first president of Israel

Saddam Hussein's Halabja massacre (1988) could be seen as an ____________ of the Kurds

Third Arab-Israeli war that occurred on this holy day in Judaism in 1973

Ideology that developed in the late 19th century that supports the development of a Jewish state