World War 2 ALLIES USA, Great Britain, Russia, AXIS Germany, Japan
USSR THIRD WORLD USA
COLD WAR USA ISRAEL ARAB NATIONS (Saudi Arabia) THIRD WORLD Iran SOVIET UNION ARAB NATIONS (Egypt, Syria)
IRAN COUP 1953 Dictatorship SAVAK Repressive CIA Supports SHAH Pahlavi
Iranian Fundamentalist Revolution American Hostage Crisis (Carter’s downfall, Reagan’s victory) Iran-Iraq War Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Iraq-Iran War Saddam Hussein provokes the conflict Brutal-Bloody-Bankrupting One million dead Iraq and Iran’s economies in shambles
Iranian Fundamentalist Revolution American Hostage Crisis (Carter’s downfall, Reagan’s victory) Iran-Iraq War Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
SOVIET UNION Communist Nation Atheism
AFGHANISTAN Communist Government Muslim People SOVIET UNION Communist Nation Atheism
SOVIETSINVADEAFGHANISTAN1980 AFGHANISTAN Communist Government Muslim People SOVIET UNION Communist Nation Atheism
JIHADSOVIETSINVADEAFGHANISTAN1980 AFGHANISTAN Communist Government Muslim People SOVIET UNION Communist Nation Atheism
JIHAD Mujahadeen USA SUPPORTS “Freedom Fighters” Saudi Arabia Usama Bin Ladin
Iran-Iraq War Iraq Broke Kuwait Creditor Iran Withdrawn
Saddam Demands Relief Kuwait Rejects Saddam’s Suggestions (Increase oil output or forgive debts) USA Falters Saddam Invades Kuwait
US in Saudi Arabia “Infidels” in the Holy Land Desert SHIELD turned OCCUPY DESERT Osama Bin Laden had offered the Kingdom “his mujahedeen” OSAMA “GUEST” OF THE TALIBAN Growing US Presence in ME Taliban take-over of Afghanistan ( )
Osama declares Fatwa
Embassy bombings In Africa 1998 Kenya-Tanzania Osama declares Fatwa
Attack on the USS Cole 2000 Embassy bombings In Africa Osama declares Fatwa
September 11, 2001 Attack on the USS Cole Embassy bombings In Africa Osama declares Fatwa
PM says Iraq ready for US withdrawal December 3, 2011
Osama bin Laden Killed: 'Justice Is Done,' President Obama Says May 1, 2011
Arab Spring 2011 Will the revolutions that swept away the governments of Tunisia, Egypt and Libya bring peace and democracy or will they lead to greater instability as more radical elements of Islamic Jihad seize control of those societies?