Jordanian History and Civilization
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- Complete the sentence with the correct year: The agreement was ratified by their respective governments on 9 and 16 May ______.
- Complete the sentence about Abdullah I of Jordan with the correct year: As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since ______, Abdullah was a 38th-generation direct descendantā¦
- Complete the sentence about Abdullah I of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, Jordan annexed the West Bank, which angered Arab countries including Syria, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
- Complete the sentence about Abdullah I of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, Abdullah persuaded his father to stand, successfully, for Grand Sharif of Mecca, a post for which Hussein acquired Brā¦
- Complete the sentence about Talal of Jordan with the correct year: As a member of the Hashemite dynasty, the royal family of Jordan since ______, Talal was a 39th-generation direct descendant of Muhamā¦
- Complete the sentence about Talal of Jordan with the correct year: Abdullah was a son of Sharif Hussein of Mecca, who led the Great Arab Revolt during World War I against the Ottoman Empire in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Talal of Jordan with the correct year: After removing Ottoman rule, Abdullah established the Emirate of Transjordan in ______, and ruled as its Emir.
- Complete the sentence about Talal of Jordan with the correct year: Talal received private education in Amman, later joining Transjordan's Arab Legion as second lieutenant in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Talal of Jordan with the correct year: The country sought independence in ______, and the Emirate became the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
- Complete the sentence about Talal of Jordan with the correct year: Abdullah was assassinated in Jerusalem in ______, and Talal became the king.
- Complete the sentence about Abdullah II of Jordan with the correct year: As the king's eldest son, Abdullah was heir apparent until Hussein transferred the title to Abdullah's uncle Prince Hassan in _ā¦
- Complete the sentence about Abdullah II of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, Abdullah married Rania Al-Yassin, with whom he has four children: Crown Prince Hussein, Princess Iman, Princess Salmā¦
- Complete the sentence about Abdullah II of Jordan with the correct year: A few weeks before his death in ______, King Hussein named Abdullah his heir, and Abdullah succeeded his father.
- Complete the sentence about Abdullah II of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, large-scale protests demanding reform erupted in the Arab world, which led to civil wars in some countries.
- Complete the sentence about Queen Rania of Jordan with the correct year: Rania Al-Yassin was born on 31 August ______ in Kuwait to Jordanian parents of Palestinian origin.
- Complete the sentence about Queen Rania of Jordan with the correct year: Rania graduated from New English School in Kuwait in ______ and subsequently earned a degree in business administration from thā¦
- Complete the sentence about Queen Rania of Jordan with the correct year: The Queen is chairperson of Jordan's first interactive children's museum, which opened in May ______.
- Complete the sentence about Queen Noor of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, Queen Noor received Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson Award for her public service.
- Complete the sentence about Hashemites with the correct year: Abdullah was assassinated in ______, but his descendants continue to rule Jordan today.
- Complete the sentence about Hashemites with the correct year: In ______, Hussein bin Ali was appointed to the Sharifate of Mecca.
- Complete the sentence about Hashemites with the correct year: In ______ he met the British high commissioner, Lord Kitchener, in Cairo to discuss the possibility of the British supporting an Arab upriā¦
- Complete the sentence about Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan with the correct year: In ______, Jordan gained independence and became officially known as the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.
- Complete the sentence about Sharif Hussein bin Ali with the correct year: In ______, in the aftermath of the Young Turk Revolution, Hussein was appointed Sharif of Mecca by the Ottoman sultan Abdul Haā¦
- Complete the sentence about Sharif Hussein bin Ali with the correct year: In October ______, facing defeat by Ibn Saud, he abdicated and was succeeded as king by his eldest son Ali bin Hussein.
- Complete the sentence about Arab Revolt with the correct year: By ______, the rebels had captured Damascus and proclaimed the Arab Kingdom of Syria, a short-lived monarchy that was led by Hussein's soā¦
- Complete the sentence about Arab Revolt with the correct year: The rise of nationalism in the Ottoman Empire dates from at least ______.
- Complete the sentence about Arab Revolt with the correct year: The Young Turk Revolution began on 3 July ______ and quickly spread throughout the empire.
- Complete the sentence about Arab Revolt with the correct year: As a result, Sultan Abdul Hamid II was forced to announce the restoration of the ______ constitution and the reconvening of the Ottoman pā¦
- Complete the sentence about Arab Revolt with the correct year: In ______, intellectuals and politicians from the Mashriq met in Paris at the First Arab Congress.
- Complete the sentence about T. E. Lawrence with the correct year: After the outbreak of war in ______, Lawrence joined the British Army and was stationed at the Arab Bureau, a military intelligence unā¦
- Complete the sentence about T. E. Lawrence with the correct year: In ______, he travelled to Mesopotamia and Arabia on intelligence missions and became involved with the Arab revolt against Ottoman ruā¦
- Complete the sentence about T. E. Lawrence with the correct year: In ______, Lawrence died at the age of 46 after being injured in a motorcycle crash in Dorset.
- Complete the sentence about T. E. Lawrence with the correct year: Thomas Edward Lawrence was born on 16 August ______ in Tremadog, Carnarvonshire, in a house named Gorphwysfa, now known as Snowdon Lodā¦
- Complete the sentence about Faisal I of Iraq with the correct year: In ______, the Syrian National Congress proclaimed Faisal king, rejecting the French claim to a Mandate for Syria.
- Complete the sentence about Faisal I of Iraq with the correct year: In ______, he presided over the independence of the Kingdom of Iraq upon the end of the British Mandate and the country's entry intoā¦
- Complete the sentence about Faisal I of Iraq with the correct year: Faisal died of a heart attack in ______ in Bern, Switzerland, at the age of 48 and was succeeded by his eldest son Ghazi.
- Complete the sentence about Faisal I of Iraq with the correct year: In ______, he was elected as representative for the city of Jeddah for the Ottoman parliament.
- Complete the sentence about SykesāPicot Agreement with the correct year: Italy assented to the agreement in ______ via the Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and received southern Anatolia.
- Complete the sentence about SykesāPicot Agreement with the correct year: More broadly it was to lead, indirectly, to the subsequent partitioning of the Ottoman Empire following Ottoman defeat in _____ā¦
- Complete the sentence about Treaty of London with the correct year: Transjordan's impending independence was recognised on 18 April ______ by the League of Nations during the last meeting of that orgaā¦
- Complete the sentence about Treaty of London with the correct year: Despite this, Jordan only became a full member of the United Nations on 14 December ______ as part of a wider compromise in which 16ā¦
- Complete the sentence about Arab Legion with the correct year: On 22 October ______, the police were merged with the Reserve Mobile Force, still under Peake, who was now an employee of the Emirate ofā¦
- Complete the sentence about Arab Legion with the correct year: On 1 April ______, the Transjordan Frontier Force was formed from cadre drawn from the Arab Legion.
- Complete the sentence about Arab Legion with the correct year: In ______, John Bagot Glubb, better known as "Glubb Pasha", became the Legion's commander, with Major General Abdul Qadir Pasha Al Jundiā¦
- Complete the sentence about John Bagot Glubb with the correct year: In ______, he was transferred to Iraq, which Britain had started governing under a League of Nations Mandate following the war.
- Complete the sentence about John Bagot Glubb with the correct year: In ______, he was posted to Ramadi "to maintain a rickety floating bridge over the river Euphrates, carried on boats made of reeds dā¦
- Complete the sentence about John Bagot Glubb with the correct year: In ______, he formed the Desert Patrol, a force consisting exclusively of Bedouin to curb the raiding problem that plagued the southā¦
- Complete the sentence about Battle of Karameh with the correct year: Following the seizure of the West Bank from Jordan in the June ______ Six-Day War, Israel destroyed the existing Palestinian groupā¦
- Complete the sentence about Battle of Karameh with the correct year: In early ______, however, Fatah guerrillas began raiding Israel from bases on the Jordanian side of the river.
- Complete the sentence about Black September with the correct year: Hussein hesitated to oust them from the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the Dawson's Field hijackings oā¦
- Complete the sentence about Jordanian annexation of the West Bank with the correct year: During the December ______ Jericho Conference, hundreds of Palestinian notables in the West Bank gathered, acceā¦
- Complete the sentence about Jordanian annexation of the West Bank with the correct year: On 3 April ______, Israel and Jordan signed an armistice agreement.
- Complete the sentence about 1948 ArabāIsraeli War with the correct year: The war formally ended with the ______ Armistice Agreements which established the Green Line.
- Complete the sentence about 1948 ArabāIsraeli War with the correct year: Just before the expiration of the British Mandate for Palestine, Zionist leaders announced the Israeli Declaration of Independeā¦
- Complete the sentence about Six-Day War with the correct year: In early November ______, Syrian president Nureddin al-Atassi signed a mutual defense agreement with Egypt.
- Complete the sentence about Six-Day War with the correct year: In May ______, Nasser received false reports from the Soviet Union that Israel was massing on the Syrian border.
- Complete the sentence about Yom Kippur War with the correct year: Most of the fighting occurred in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, territories occupied by Israel in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Yom Kippur War with the correct year: The Arab position, as it emerged in September ______ at the Khartoum Arab Summit, was to reject any peaceful settlement with the Stateā¦
- Complete the sentence about IsraelāJordan peace treaty with the correct year: The signing ceremony took place at the southern border crossing of Arabah on 26 October ______.
- Complete the sentence about IsraelāJordan peace treaty with the correct year: In ______ Israeli foreign affairs minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein tried secretly to arrange a peace agreement in whā¦
- Complete the sentence about IsraelāJordan peace treaty with the correct year: Rabin, Hussein and Clinton signed the Washington Declaration in Washington, D.C., on 25 July ______.
- Complete the sentence about IsraelāJordan peace treaty with the correct year: On 26 October ______, Jordan and Israel signed the peace treaty in a ceremony held in the Arava valley of Israel, north ofā¦
- Complete the sentence about IsraelāJordan peace treaty with the correct year: On 4 November ______ the Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist, who aimed to undermiā¦
- Complete the sentence about Constitution of Jordan with the correct year: The Constitution of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan was adopted on 1 January ______.
- Complete the sentence about Constitution of Jordan with the correct year: In July ______, the United Kingdom attempted to establish control of Transjordan in line with their claim over the region estaā¦
- Complete the sentence about Constitution of Jordan with the correct year: In March ______, the United Kingdom proclaimed the Emirate of Transjordan as the new centralized government of the region undeā¦
- Complete the sentence about Constitution of Jordan with the correct year: The emirate's first constitution was put into effect following the promulgation of an Organic Law in April ______ for use undeā¦
- Complete the sentence about National Assembly of Jordan with the correct year: The ______ Constitution provided for citizens of Jordan to form and join political parties.
- Complete the sentence about National Assembly of Jordan with the correct year: On 30 July ______, King Hussein dissolved Jordan's lower house of parliament, half of whose members represented constitueā¦
- Complete the sentence about National Assembly of Jordan with the correct year: Subsequent civil unrest followed with Prime Minister Zaid al-Rifai alleged to have used heavy-handed tactics against theā¦
- Complete the sentence about House of Representatives with the correct year: Following Jordanian independence, the number of elected parliamentary councils increased to 18, with the first House of Reprā¦
- Complete the sentence about House of Representatives with the correct year: During the first legislature, the most significant policy was the unification of two major banks in the country following deā¦
- Complete the sentence about Politics of Jordan with the correct year: Jordan is a constitutional monarchy based on the constitution promulgated on January 8, ______.
- Complete the sentence about Politics of Jordan with the correct year: King Abdullah II of Jordan has been sovereign since the death of his father, King Hussein, in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Politics of Jordan with the correct year: A veto by the king may be overridden by a two-thirds vote of both houses of parliament at his discretion, most recently in Novembeā¦
- Complete the sentence about Elections in Jordan with the correct year: The first general election was held during the Emirate of Transjordan in ______.
- Complete the sentence about Elections in Jordan with the correct year: Even after Jordan gained independence in ______, British influence caused elections to be held under block voting.
- Complete the sentence about Elections in Jordan with the correct year: The ______ general election under block voting saw opposition Islamist parties win 22 out of 80 seats in the House of Representatā¦
- Complete the sentence about Islamic Action Front with the correct year: Founded originally as the Islamic Action Front Party in ______ with 350 members, as the political wing of the Muslim Brotherhoodā¦
- Complete the sentence with the correct year: At the legislative elections, 17 June ______, the party won 20 out of 84 seats.
- Complete the sentence about Jordanian Armed Forces with the correct year: The first organized army in Jordan was established on 22 October ______, and was named the "Mobile Force".
- Complete the sentence about Royal Jordanian Air Force with the correct year: In ______, the RJAF began participating in United Nations airlift operations, supporting Jordanian troops on peacekeeping aā¦
- Complete the sentence about Royal Jordanian Air Force with the correct year: By ______, British forces had fully departed Jordan, and the RJAF assumed complete control over the nation's airfields, marā¦
- Complete the sentence about Royal Jordanian Navy with the correct year: The Royal Naval Force was established in ______, in Aqaba, as the Royal Coast Guard.
- Complete the sentence about Royal Jordanian Navy with the correct year: Performing essentially a coast guard mission, in ______ it had 300 officers and men based at Aqaba, the country's only port, witā¦
- Complete the sentence about Royal Jordanian Navy with the correct year: In late ______, three larger craft of ninety-five tons each were ordered from Britain.
- Complete the sentence about Royal Jordanian Navy with the correct year: On 13 November ______ the Royal Coast Guard was renamed as the Royal Naval Force.
- Complete the sentence about General Intelligence Directorate with the correct year: The establishment of the GID was formalized by Act No. 24 of ______, which underwent all necessary constitutional prā¦
- Complete the sentence about Public Security Directorate with the correct year: The first police force in the Jordanian state, was organized after the fall of the Ottoman Empire on 11 April ______.
- Complete the sentence about Public Security Directorate with the correct year: Until ______, police duties were carried out totally by the Arab Legion and the Transjordan Frontier Force.
- Complete the sentence about Public Security Directorate with the correct year: After the ______ Arabization of the Jordanian Army command, the Public Security Directorate was established.
- Complete the sentence about Public Security Directorate with the correct year: In ______, it was the first Arab state to introduce females to its police force.
- Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Jordan with the correct year: Along with Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, as of ______ Jordan was one of only three Arab nations to have signed peacā¦
- Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Jordan with the correct year: Jordan views an independent Palestinian state with the ______ borders, as part of the two-state solution and of supreme nā¦
- Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Jordan with the correct year: Jordan and Israel signed a historic peace treaty on October 26, ______, witnessed by President Clinton, accompanied by Seā¦
- Complete the sentence about Foreign relations of Jordan with the correct year: Since ______, Pakistan has been demanding its vacation at the international level.
- Complete the sentence about JordanāIsrael relations with the correct year: Jordan significantly reduced its military participation in the Yom Kippur War in ______ against Israel.
- Complete the sentence about JordanāIsrael relations with the correct year: Jordan and Israel signed the Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace in ______, normalizing relations between the two countries.
- Complete the sentence about JordanāIsrael relations with the correct year: In ______, Israeli Foreign Affairs Minister Shimon Peres and King Hussein secretly devised a peace plan in which Israel wouldā¦
- Complete the sentence about JordanāPalestine relations with the correct year: In ______, a conflict broke out between the Jordanian Armed Forces led by King Hussein and the Palestine Liberation Organiā¦
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