1. Welcome to theModern Middle East!

2. American Missionaries in the Middle East 3. Americas Rising InfluenceThe Moroccan Crisis 4. Balfour Declaration 5. The Fall of the Ottoman EmpireWorld War I and the Armenian Genocide 6. British Influence in Iraq 7. Cold War & the Modern Middle East Map posted by the Univ ofMinnesota History Department 8. The Creation of Israel 9. The Suez Crisis 10. The Long history of the Middle East Central Oregon Comm College 11. Your Instructor Chris Lee, Ph.D. in History, 2001 23 years in the military 2005 present: National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) Ten years with Peru State CollegePeople say I look like Ben Franklin.