1. COUNTRIES OF THE MIDDLE EAST
OIL AND CONFLICT

2. OIL!!
What things are made from oil?
1930 discovered in Saudi Arabia

3. OPEC
Organization of
Petroleum
Exporting
Countries
Began in 1960

4. $$$$$$$$$$$$ Money changes everything Pgs 228-229
Literacy rate: 3% in 1930 to 79% today

5. Bright lights, big desert
DUBAI
Bright lights, big desert

16. IRAQ

17. SADDAM HUSSEIN
Led Iraq
1990 invaded Kuwait

23. IRAN

24. HOSTAGE CRISIS
1979
Iranian students attack US Embassy

25. HOSTAGE CRISIS More than 50 Americans Held over 1 year (444 days)
The problem…
The deal…

26. MAHMOUD AHMADINEJAD

27. HASSAN ROUHANI AUGUST 2013

28. IRAN
Rights- pg 236
Nuclear threat

29. ISRAEL

30. CONSTANT TURMOIL 3 religions call Jerusalem “Holy Land”
Fights over whose land it is, or whose it should be
Palestinians(Muslims)
Will we ever see peace in Israel?
How many countries will Israel become?

31. AFGHANISTAN

32. “HUB OF ASIA”
Afghanistan in the middle of everything

33. MANY INVADERS Mongols Turks British Soviets Kicked them all out
Strong, proud people

34. MANY DIFFERENT PEOPLES
Not only fighting invaders…
fight amongst themselves

35. WE COULD HAVE HELPED
Soviet Union
We helped
1989
We left

36. THE TALIBAN

37. COMPLETE EXTREMISM
Laws supposedly based on the Qu’ran

38. BURQA

40. BUDDHIST MONUMENTS

42. BOOKS ABOUT AFGHANISTAN

43. AL QAEDA
Terrorist group
Led by Osama bin Laden
Killed