middle+east+conflicts

Noor Kacie Ashtyn 7th period 4-12-12 ==    ==

= __** Middle East Conflicts after World War II **__ = Most of Middle East conflicts have been about oil and who maintains superiority over the each country and stereotyping is as well a big deal. These are enormous causes in a lot of the wars like the Iran/Iraq war, Camp David, and the 6 day war, etc...In this essay I will describe each of the following war and what they have done and why.

The Iran/Iraq war was one of the conflicts in the Middle East that was caused because of territorial boundaries. This war was one of the most important conflicts of modern times because it involved two major oil producers. This war began in 1979 and ended in 1988. This war was also one of the bloodiest and most destructive wars since World War 2. The Iran-Iraq war was caused by the mad mullahs in Iran took over from the shah. The US got kicked out, and they start to secure control of their country. Sadam Hussein just became “president” of Iraq. He sees weakness in Iran. The Iran army does some major structuring and saddam thinks that Iran is weak at the moment so they attack Iran’s’ southern part to secure the oil fields there.

The Six-Day War took place in June 1967. In six days Israel occupied Sinai in Egypt, west bank in Jordan, and Golan heights in Syria. Rather than wait to be attacked the Israelis launched a hugely successful military campaign against its perceived enemies and then kicked everyone out and nobody was left after those six days everyone was gone. This war was a disaster for the Arab world and weakened the president of Egypt, Gamel Abdul Nasser who was seen as the leader of the Arabs.



In 1973, there was another war between Egypt and Israel. To avoid any more bloody wars in the Middle East, the United States of America worked very hard with Egypt and Israel to have peace between them. After several years of negotiations, the United States of America invited the two countries to come to Camp David and sign a peace treaty, which was later known as Camp David Treaty between Israel and Camp David.  Since then, the two countries been living in peace with no wars.

The [|Iran]  hostage crisis was proof to many United States Citizens that President [|Jimmy Carter]  ’s ineffectiveness and the decline of the [|United States]  after the [|Vietnam War] . Between the years of 1950 and the 1970s, the U.S was a close ally of <span style="color: #007cc3; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">[|Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi's] <span style="color: #121917; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> government but then political opposition of the government started to grow in 1978 within Iran and other countries. In 1979, the shah fled from Iran to the U.S. after weeks of violence. Soon after Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran and became the ruler of the country. Muslims began to blame the U.S. for interfering with Iran’s internal politics, which led to students overrunning the U.S. embassy in Tehran. On November 4, 1979 the students took 66 hostages. 14 of those hostages were released early, but 52 were kept. After the hostages were taken President Carter did a series of things to pressure the Iranians to release the hostages, but they had no effect. After many unsuccessful attempts to force the release of the hostages the Iranian government outlined four demands. The demands were returning the shah's wealth to Iran, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, cancellation of public and private claims against Iran, and a pledge by the United States not to interfere in Iranian affairs. On January 19, 1981, the day before President Reagan was to take office Carter's negotiators signed a deal with the Iranians. The United Sates government met the demands of the Iranian Government. The next day on January 20, 1981, 30 minutes after Reagan was inaugurated the hostages were released after held captive for 444 days.
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<span style="color: #121917; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> The Gulf War, in 1990 August 2nd, was led by the united States for the liberation from Kuwait. Suspicion aroused that Kuwait was smuggling petroleum across the border. The Iraqis invaded Kuwait, which caused an out break within the nations. <span style="color: #121917; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;"> Through the United States eyes, Iran’s allies were stable including The Soviet Union. The United States was questionable and did not like the attempted to peace with the Arab, Though the United States stood neutral between the Wars of Iraq and Iran. In March of 1982, Iran Successfully opened relations with Iraq, and had Iraq removed from the list of possible terrorism. But Assistant Secretary of Defense, Noel Koch, Stated that :, "No one had any doubts about [the Iraqis'] continued involvement in terrorism… The real reason was to help them succeed in the war against Iran."

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<span style="color: #121917; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">After Iraq got taken off the list the economy and almost everything else boosted. But post war The senate, in 1988, tried to pass “The Prevention of Genocide act of 1988” It was not adopted. Congress wanted to keep Iraq’s diplomacy separate in concern for human rights. This act, was not paid any attention to unfortunately.

**__ <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif;"> Work Cited: __**
** "Gulf War." //- New World Encyclopedia//. Web. 01 Apr. 2012. < ****http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Gulf_War**** >. ** ** "Iraq." //- New World Encyclopedia//. Web. 01 Apr. 2012. < ****http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Iraq**** >. **
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 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">by Anup Shah
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Created: Monday, October 16, 2000
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; font-size: 12pt;">Last Updated: Tuesday, December 06, 2011