HIST 1F95 Lecture 5: Lecture 5- Middle East
21 Jul 2015
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Israeli conflict (1950 2000: the middle east: the basics, decolonization in the middle east, regional political development: rise of nasser and secular, modernizing parties, suez canal crisis, cold war and superpower intervention, rise of militant islam: iranian revolution (1979) Gamal abdel nasser (egypt: comes to power in 1952, 1958 1961: creates united arab republic when egypt and syria join together; part of the arabs first ideology, nasser encouraged anti imperialism and to fight against the french for the decolonization, building on the nile river a dam to prevent cheap affordable electricity to. The six day war: 1967: nasser gets his street cred by having a strong line against the israelis: when the war comes, (3rd war, israeli launches attack on fear of an attack, seizes many states across egypt, israel etc, declares jerusalem its capital no one sees this true in the world because they were seized by force.
