World Geography - Chap. 18 Section 4

What are the 2 biggest problems that the US and Iran will have to overcome before they can establish a better relationship?

1) Nuclear weapons that are being developed in Iraq and Iraq is not a democratic government. 2) Iraq is a major sponsor of terrorism and they want to destroy Israel which is a close ally of the US.

In what year did the Iranian Revolution began?

1978

What does theocracy mean?

A government ruled by religious leaders.

Which land does the Persian Empire controlled about 2500 years ago?

Eastern India to Greece and Egypt in the West

What language do the Persians speak?

Farsi

What does the term shah mean?

King

The last of the great dynasties of the Persian Empire was conquered in the early 600's by which empire?

Muslim empire

What ancient empire ruled the area that is the modern country of Iran?

Persian Empire

Unlike the countries of SouthWest Asia, most Iranians are what kind of group?

Persians and NOT Arabs

What kind of government does Iran have?

THEOCRACY

Beginning in the 1940's, who became an ally of the US and adopted plans to modernize Iran much like Kemal Ataturk had done in Turkey?

The Shah of Iran

What did a group of Iranian students do in 1979 (with permission of the Islamic government) that made the situation between Iran and the U.S. even worse?

They took Americans hostage working at the Embassy in Iran's capital.

Relations with which country was strained as a result of the Iranian Revolution?

United States

Who was overthrown in the Iranian Revolution?

the Shah