The Truman Doctrine

1. What is the Truman Doctrine?
   What was the US foreign policy toward the Middle East during the Cold War? Please discuss the US policy
   toward Turkey, Iran and the Arab World from 1945 to 1980. 2. What was the Soviet policy toward the Middle
   East during the Cold War? What were the causes and consequences of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
2. What were the causes and consequences of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War? What were the political and
   ideological impacts of the war on the Arab world? 4. What were the causes and consequences of the 1973
   Arab-Israeli War? What were the regional and global impact of the war? 5. What were the major
   disagreements between the Arab republics and the Arab kingdoms in the Middle East during the Cold War?
   Please explain the role of ideologies in that struggle. 6. What were the causes and consequences of the
   Iranian Revolution? How did Ayatollah Khomeini legitimize his role as a political leader in the Shia faith? 7.
   What were the causes and consequences of the Iran-Iraq war? How did two superpowers, the US and the
   USSR, approach this war? Which side did they support and why? 8. What were the causes of American
   invasion of Iraq?

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