HST500 Lec 11

Jimmy Carter Angola Jackson-Vanik Amendment Islamic Revolution – Iran  Ayatollah Khomeini US Embassy Hostage Crisis Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Afghanistan Invasion 1979

Moscow Olympics Boycott 1980

Hashshashin  (smokers of hash)

Alamut

Ottoman Empire 

Mecca

Suez Canal

Cairo

jihad

Sharif Hussein bin Ali (Emir of Mecca)

Hashemites

Hejaz

Abdul Aziz Ibn Sa’ūd 

House of Saud

Riyadh

ABRIDGED 2010

The Arabists

Arab Revolt

T.E. Lawrence  “Lawrence of Arabia”

Sykes-Picot Agreement

Balfour Declaration

Political Zionism

Theodor Herzl

Palestine

Zionist Commission in Palestine

Chaim Weizman

San Remo Conference (1920)

Wahhabis  (Al-Wahhābīyya)  

Muhammad ibn Abd-al-Wahhab

Saud-Wahhab Alliance 1740

Saudi Arabia

Menachem Begin

Irgun

Che Guevara 

Felix Rodriguez

Sandinistas Daniel Ortega

Bolen Amendment

Contras

Irangate or the Iran-Contra Affair

The Mini-manual of Urban Guerrilla Warfare

Tupamaros Uruguay  Dan Mitrione Munich Olympics 1972 Black September PLO PLFP Dawson Field Hijacking Leilla Khaled

Baader-Meinhof RAF

Red Brigades
(BR-Brigade Rosse) 

IRA

FLQ

October Crisis 1970 Mujahedeen ISI– Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate Pakistan

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar

Hizb-e Islam 

Taliban Bin Laden 

al Qaeda

Neo-Taliban Yuri Andropov Konstantin Chernenko  Michael Gorbachev  Ronald Reagan  Operation Urgent Fury Lech Walesa 

Solidarnosc (Solidarity)

Pope John Paul II Evil Empire Speech Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars) START GlasnostPerestroika August 1991 Coup (August putsch)

Boris Yeltsin

Russian Republic

Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)

Chechnya

Vladimir Putin

 LINK:  Ghaddafi speech to United Nations  September 23, 2009

“Wars of Liberation” – 1945 – 1985