Saddam Hussein invaded the small country to his southeast on August 2, 1990.
How were we linked to this?
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The 1986 Iran-Contra Affair revealed that the Reagan administration had secretly negotiated arms-for-hostages deals with Iran
Easy to say that America had it really hard because of all of the hostages, but it's important to know why there were so many hostage situations
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On Nov. 4, 1979, Iranian students backed by the new regime took 63 Americans at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran hostage.
This may seem like the worst thing in the world... but think about why they did that!
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Americans felt the effects of that war through the 1973 Arab oil embargo, rocketing oil prices upward and contributing to a recession a year later.
OIL! Money! This is the real underlying obsession with the middle east and the middle east. Just think of how different the world would be if that land weren't so abundant.
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The Soviet Union threatened armed attack if it did
Two large, powerful countries using other countries as bate for one another. The game of pawns continues
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The Middle East burst back onto the American foreign policy radar with the Six Day War of 1967, when Israel
There is absolutely no threat on America, so why was it so sensitive to every thing going on?
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The coup severely tarnished America’s reputation among Iranians, who lost trust in American claims of protecting democracy.
Americans just so hung up on how their viewed and how democracy is recieved. Not everyone has the same ideas in the world, and that's okay. You can't just go around claiming lands to be yours when you fear that they might not like you.
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Truman accepted the 1947 United Nations partition plan of Palestine, granting 57% of the land to Israel and 43% to Palestine, and personally lobbied for its success. The plan lost support from U.N. member nations, especially as hostilities between Jews and Palestinians multiplied in 1948 and Arabs lost more land or fled.
Was it really fair to give Jews the majority of the land? This act created so much more hostility between these people, and led to much more violence (even though it's not the U.S. actually being violent, we caused it)
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Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi
This was the Iranian shah at the time, so America was only getting closer with him to edge out Soviet Union. Simply just possessive and imperialistic of America
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American troops were stationed in Iran during World War II to help transfer military supplies to the Soviet Union and protect Iranian oil.
The first time we see American military in the middle east is not aggressive. Merely just to get closer to another enemy. This action could possibly let us get a little more comfortable there
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