Chapter 11 Timeline Exercise

correct incorrect Overthrow of Egyptian King Farouk by Free Officers movement

correct incorrect Gamal Abd al-Nasser in power in Egypt

correct incorrect Suez crisis and war

correct incorrect Union of Egypt and Syria as the United Arab Republic

correct incorrect The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is formed

correct incorrect Arab–Israeli war, also known as the Six-Day War

correct incorrect Anwar al-Sadat succeeds Nasser as president of Egypt; Hafiz al-Assad comes to power in Syria

correct incorrect Arab–Israeli war, often referred to as the October war or the Ramadan war; during the war, oil embargo imposed by the Arab members of OPEC

correct incorrect Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty signed; Iranian Revolution; Sunni militants occupy Grand Mosque in Mecca; Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

correct incorrect Iran–Iraq War

correct incorrect Israeli invasion of Lebanon

correct incorrect First Palestinian Intifada (uprising)

correct incorrect Fall of the Berlin Wall and symbolic end to the Cold War

correct incorrect Second Gulf War initiated by Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait

correct incorrect Beginning of Madrid peace process; dissolution of the Soviet Union

correct incorrect PLO and Israel sign Declaration of Principles

correct incorrect Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty

correct incorrect Death of Syrian President Hafiz al-Assad (his son, Bashar al-Assad, assumes power)