Azeri Turks
coup of 1953
hostage crisis (1979-81)
Islamic revolution (1978-9)
Kurdish population
under Mossadegh
oil production
relations with USSR
and Saudi Arabia
Savak (secret police)
Second World War occupation
under the Shah
and terrorism
Iran, Shah of (Mohammad Reza Pahlavi)
fall of
Iran-Contra affair (‘Irangate’)
Iraq:
Christians in
coup of 1958
Kurdish population
Nasser’s interference in
under Saddam Hussein
Soviet aid
Iraq-Syria pipeline
Iraq war (2003- )
Ireland
Catholic Church
emigration
Irish Question
nationalism
terrorism
Islam:
in Afghanistan
in Iran
in Iraq
of Kurds
in Pakistan
in Soviet Central Asia
in Turkey
and Turkish ‘guest workers’ in Germany
Israel:
American support for
Arab plans to eliminate
Camp David accords (1978)
establishment of
and Iran-Contra affair
relations with USSR
Six Day War (1967)
and Suez crisis
Yom Kippur War (1973)
Istanbul
Aya Sofya
Bosphorus Bridge
economic growth and redevelopment
Galata
Maslak
riots (1955)
stock exchange
Taksim Square massacre (1977)
Italy:
Allied reconquest
automobile industry
backwardness
black economy
Christian Democrats
Communists
corruption
education system
and EEC
election of 1948
film industry
and Germany
Guelfs and Ghibellines
imports
industrial unrest and strikes
inflation
Marshall Plan aid
peasantry
political instability
post-war economic recovery
protectionism
public finances
Red Brigades
student demonstrations
terrorism
trade unions
universities
war damage
Itzenplitz, Baron Heinrich von
Izmir
J
Jachymov mines, Bohemia
Jackson, Andrew
Jackson-Vanik Amendment (1973-4)
Jacobs, Jane,
