year 12 Modern history (ATAR)
​unit 4

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Background to the Middle East
Creation of Israel
Significant Ideas
Attempts at Peace
Significant Individuals

Key Conflicts
First Arab Israeli War (1948-9)
Suez War (1956)
Six-Day War (1967)
1973 War
Intifada (1987-94)
2nd Intifada (2000)

Other conflicts
Lebanese Civil War
Iran/Iraq War (1980-1988)
Iranian Revolution
First Gulf War (1990-1991)