1. Lesson #2b Revolutions in the Middle East
IRAQ
IRAN
TURKEY
KURDS
ARMENIANS
LEBANON
EGYPT

2. TURKEY Turks controlled all of the Ottoman Empire up until WWI
Ottomans lost WWI (were on the German side)
Ottoman Empire splintered into “mandates”
Turkish nationalists pushed to modernize – led by Ataturk

3. ARMENIANS
1.5 million deaths, 1915

4. IRAQ SADDAM HUSSEIN Saddam to Power 1979 Attacked Iran 1980
Iran – Iraq War
Attacked Kuwait 1990

5. KURDS
Independent people
Hoping for a free nation someday

6. KURDS

7. LEBANON Government: Confessionalism (power sharing by religions)
Civil War –
Controlled by terrorist organization Hezbollah

8. Palestinians Yassir Arafat
Have been hoping for a free nation since 1919
Israel now controls all Palestinian land
Gaza Strip
West Bank
Yassir Arafat

9. UNITED ARAB STATES Raffles Hotel Dubai Emirates Palace, Dhabi
Burj Dubai
$4,000/sq.ft
Offices and condos
2,500 ft. tall
(almost 2x Empire State Blg)
$15,365/night
Burj Al Arab, Dubai
(Tower of the Arabs)

10. IRAN
President Amadinijad
Shah of Iran
Ayatollah Khomeini