Instructor:  Jean H. Braden
Room 252, Bisdorf Building

Telephone:   703-845-6357
email:
jebraden@nvcc.edu

Topic

The Fertile Crescent

Identifications: Identify and discuss the importance of the following items.

 

 

ESSAY

1.  Discuss the political, economic, social, and religious problems facing Syria since 1940.

 

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Iraq Oil Company D'Arcy Anglo-Persian Oil
Chester Group Turkish Petroleum Company
Admiral Colby M. Chester Sir Edward Grey
Latakia Anti-Lebanon
Orontes River Palmyra
Euphrates River Ghutah Valley
Jebel Druze Shi'ite
Isma'ili Alawite
Jemel Pasha Syrian Congress (1920)
Vichy Regime Colonel Husni al-Za'im
Colonel Sami Hinnawi Colonel Adib Shishakili
Akram Hourani Hashim al-Atasi
Shukri al-Kuwatly UAR
Syrian Social Nationalist Party Syrian Communist Party
Ba'ath Party General Qasim
General Amin Hafiz Hafez al-Assad

READING ASSIGNMENT

Fisher and Ochsenwald, Chapter 35 and 43