HIST 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Preemptive War, Accorhotels
14 Mar 2017
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Maronite"s are 14: in 1926 lebanon become a republic. The french make parliamentary seats based off of a confessional system (you had to run for the group you were part of) This arrangement forced the president to be maronite and the prime. Important events: 1943: maronite christian president and sunni prime minister agreed on a pact that had parliament created based on a ratio between muslims and non- For every 6 non-muslims in parliament, there will be 5 muslims. The birth rate in muslims was higher. Lots of maronite christians moved away to places like north america. Meanwhile, the shi"a demography was growing all-the-while. Despite this, the political system did not change to reflect these changing demographics: war breaks out in 1975 between non-maronite"s, muslims and drews vs. the. Invasion of lebanon by israel (1982): 1st prolonged israeli conflict, 1st israeli war not to have consensus at home.
