G2U8 Vocab: The Middle East

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Revolutionary Islamic fundamentalist lead of Iran who came to power in 1979

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Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini

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Egyptian president who attempted to modernize his country and nationalized the Suez Canal.

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Gamal Abdel Nasser

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Having to do with worldly, rather than religious matters.

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The former dictator of Iraq, found guilty of human rights violations.

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Saddam Hussein

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A government ruled by religious leaders

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Theocracy

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Strategic waterway linking the Mediterranean and Red seas. It was nationalized in 1956

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Suez Canal

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A penalty

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Sanction

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The ethnic minority in Turkey and Iraq whose efforts to win freedom have led to repression

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Kurds

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Egyptian president who tried to westernize Egypt by opening the country to foreign investment

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Anwar Sadat

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Westernized and modernized Turkey in the early 1900s

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Mustafa Kemal Attaturk