1. The Middle East Do Now: complete the reading “The Middle East and Oil”
The creation of Israel, The Iranian Revolution & Iraq and Saddam Hussein

2. Aim: How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?

3. Nationalist Movements
Pan-Arabism
The Arab goal to create an Arab nation
Zionism
The Israeli goal to create the nation of Israel
Aim: How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?

4. The Partition How do you think the Palestinians
felt about the creation
of Israel?
Balfour Declaration:
The British allowed
The Jews to enter
Palestine
The United Nations
Partitioned the area
and created Israel.
Aim: How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?

6. Israeli and Palestinian Peace?
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Leader: Yasir Arafat
Attempts at Peace
1993, Yasser Arafat and Israeli leader, Yitzhak Rabin signed a peace agreement.
It allowed Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank limited self-rule
Aim: How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?

7. The Oslo Accords

8. Israel vs. Palestine
Israel and Palestine will fight three wars between 1948 and 1976
Israel will gain land each time
Aim: How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?

9. Questions
How do you think the Israelis felt about the creation of their own state? (Think about WWII)
Were western countries wise in their decision about the partition of Palestine? Why or why not?
Aim: How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?

10. Summary
How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?
Aim: How did the creation of Israel create conflict in the Middle East?

11. Aim: How has the Iranian Revolution impacted the Middle East’s relationship with the west?
Do Now: Who is “the west”?
What do you know about the Middle East today?

12. The Iranian Revolution
Nationalism and Oil
The primary struggle had to do with oil
The U.S. backed the leader in Iran: Shah Muhammad Reza Pahlavi
What do you think I mean by “the U.S. backed the leader in Iran?
How has the Iranian Revolution impacted the Middle East’s relationship with the west?

13. Iranian Nationalism
OPEC: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries-
Not recognized by oil importers in the west
How has the Iranian Revolution impacted the Middle East’s relationship with the west?

14. Ayatolla Khomeini Ayatolla Khomeini drove out the Shah
Western ideas and practices were banned

15. Summary
How do you think the Iranian Revolution affect their relationship with the West?

16. Aim: How did Saddam Hussein’s leadership impact Iraq?
Do Now: Answer the following questions in your notebook:
What is a Dictator?
What other dictators have we learned about this year?

17. Saddam Hussein’s Rise to Power
Member of the Ba’ath party, which was in power since 1968
July 1979 Hussein becomes president
Who does this remind you of? (think of who Germany elected)
The Revolutionary Command Council tried to overthrow Hussein (he executed them)
Used violence to stay in power
How did Saddam Hussein’s leadership impact Iraq?

18. Iran-Iraq War (1980’s) Act of aggression
What countries acted aggressively prior to WWII?
After the Shah fell in Iran, Hussein renounced a border treaty he had signed with Iran
Used weapons of mass destruction
Nerve agents tabun and sarin
Results: heavy casualties and economic decline
How did Saddam Hussein’s leadership impact Iraq?

19. Iraq attacks Iran

20. Saddam Hussein uses Chemical Weapons on his People

22. 1st Persian Gulf War 1990 Hussein invade Kuwait
Did not allow the Red Cross access to Kuwait
Hussein used violence and terror
Took hostages
Set fire to over 1,160 Kuwaiti oil wells
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) lead by the U.S. forced Hussein out of Kuwait
Up until his death, Hussein refused to comply with UN obligation to report POW’s. Many are still missing today.
What is a POW?
How did Saddam Hussein’s leadership impact Iraq?

23. Iraq invades Kuwait

24. Internal Repression- The Kurds and the Shias (Shi’ites)
Human Rights Violation
Saddam Hussein persecuted the Iraqi Kurds
Chemical weapons were used against the Kurds during the attack on Halabja (1988)
Farms were taken from the Kurds and given to Iraqi Shias
How did Saddam Hussein’s leadership impact Iraq?

25. Summary How did Hussein’s leadership affect Iraq?
Who else in Global History is Hussein like and why?