11-5 The Middle East and the World
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- The US fought communist threats in Turkey and Iran during the
- cold war
- PLO stands for
- Or the Palestinian Liberation Organization waged guerrilla war against the Israelis
- Was the uprising of Palestinian youths in the occupied territories.
- Intifada
- Accelerated the end to the Arab-Israeli conflict was a result of
- The collapse of the Soviet Union
- Signed a historic agreement in 1993
- Israel and the PLO
- Was the Israeli leader who signed an agreement giving Palestinians limited self-rule.
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Leader of the PLO was accused of being a puppet of Israel by the Hamas
- Yasir Arafat
- Partially due to an increase in the Muslim population.
- Civil war in Lebanon was
- Were partially caused by border disputes.
- Tensions along the Persian Gulf
- Were designed to force Hussein to destroy chemical weapons.
- UN sanctions against Iraq after the Gulf War