Timeline: Keeping Track of Events

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Timeline: Keeping Track of Events
Instructions: Use this timeline to record significant events noted in the reading. The readings do
not always follow a chronological pattern and you will have to go back to fill in earlier events. Mark
U.S. presidents’ terms in the margins when they are referred to in the reading.
1501
1940
1683
1941
1736
1942
1882
1943
1907
1944
1912
1945
End of Second World War
1913
1914
First World War begins
1916
1947
1917
1948
1918
End of First World War
1919
1921
1923
1949
1952
1933
1953
1938
1956
1939
Second World War begins
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1960
1983
1961
1962
1965
1986
1967
1987
1970
First intifada breaks out
Iran ratifies the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty
1988
1973
1989
1990
1974
1975
1977
1991
Collapse of the Soviet Union
1993
Oslo Accord I signed (and 1995)
1978
1979
1994
1980
1995
1981
1998
1999
1982
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2000
2011
2001
2002
2003
2012
2004
2006
2007
2013
2008
2014
2009
2010
2015
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Part I: Graphic Organizer
Instructions: Use Part I of the reading to answer the questions below.
Self-Determination
Imperialism
Define self-determination:
Define imperialism:
Who favored it?
Which countries were the imperial powers in the
Middle East during and after World War I?:
Oil
When and why did Middle Eastern oil become an important
factor in international relations?
Sykes-Picot Accord
What was the Sykes-Picot Accord?
The Mandate System
What was the justification for the mandate system?
Which countries fell under British or French control?
Which countries signed the Sykes-Picot Accord?
British:
French:
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Part II: Graphic Organizer
Instructions: On the chart below, begin by filling in the U.S. interests and policies for each circle. Then answer the question in each
square, linking the concepts in the circles together.
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U.S. interests:
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What are the effects of these two sets
of policies on each other?
U.S. policies:
What are the effects of these two sets
of policies on each other?
Studies, Brown University U.S. Policies in the
Middle East,
1945-1991
OIL
Choices Program What are the effects of these two sets
of policies on each other?
ISRAEL & ITS
NEIGHBORS
U.S. interests:
U.S. policies:
U.S. policies:
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U.S. interests:
One must consider the multiple dimensions of this complicated issue in order to formulate sound policy.
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Israel and the Palestinians
Why is this important to the United States?
Why is this important to the United States?
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What role does the United States play in the regional security of the Middle East?
What is the role of the United States in resolving
these issues?
Studies, Brown University Arab Spring
Oil
What was the Arab Spring and how has it affected
the Middle East?
Why is this important to the United States?
Choices Program How has the Arab Spring affected U.S. relations in
the region?
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How does oil in the Middle East affect U.S. foreign
policy?
Name:______________________________________________
What should U.S. policy in the Middle East be?
The Choices Program What does this
option think
should be the
top priorities of
U.S. policy in the
Middle East?
How should oil
affect thinking
about U.S. policy
in the Middle
East?
What does this
option think U.S.
policy toward
Iran should be?
What does this
option think U.S.
policy on IsraeliPalestinian issues
should be?
What does this
option think
about U.S. policy
toward ISIS and
Syria?
Does this option
see political Islam
as a threat to the
United States?
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Option 3
Name:______________________________________________
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University Option 1