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Editors: Siana and Emma


 * WHII.47 Explain the rise and funding of Islamic fundamentalism in the last half of the 20th century and identify the major events and forces in the Middle East over the last several decades. B. the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979**

When the shah left to get medical help in america, the ayatollah came to iran and rose to power he continued fundamentalism in the government.

From 1963 and into the seventies, the Shah struggled to modernize Iran -- with help from the U.S., where foreign policy strategists saw him as a stabilizing force in the Middle East and appreciated his acceptance of the existence of Israel.The leader of the Islamic revolution — Shia cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini — first came to political prominence in 1963 when he led opposition to the Shah and his "White Revolution", a program of reforms to break up landholdings (including those owned by religious foundations), grant women the right to vote and equality in marriage, and allow religious minorities to hold government office. Between 1953 and 1963 much poverty remained among the Iranian people, and the gap between the rich and poor grew. Between 1978 and 1979, protests against the Shah broke out in the streets. The Shah was exiled soon after and Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini took power, and soon after his military was crumbled by guerrillas. Westerners, meaning The United States and Europe, who study Islamic fundamentalism are concerned about its connections with violence a.k.a terrorism, though the fundamentalists call it //jihad// or holy war. The Islamic fundamentalists want to spread Islam, So the Islamic people are fighting for the spread of Islam.Iran was ruled by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi when it was a monarchy.Strikes and protests against the Shah where some of the first major events that started the Iranian Revolution of 1978-1979. The revolution was populist. It was in part a conservative backlash against the Westernizing and secularizing efforts of the western-backed Shah, and a liberal backlash to social injustice. Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ruled from 1900 to 1989. Iranian students who were followers of Ayatollah Khomeini took American hostages from the American Embassy. This was known as the hostage crisis.After the Iranian Revolution, the new Islamic Republic of Iran has pursued an Islamic ideological foreign policy that had included creation of Hezbollah, subsidies to Hamas, opposition to Israel and Zionist leaders, and aid to Iraq's Shiite political parties.The Hezbollah is the major Shiite Islamic fundamentalist organization and its main purpose was to serve the community through...well, basically community service.The Iranian revolution was started by people who wanted the ruler to be more religious and they wanted more religion in everyday life.Agricultural and industrialism began to expand rapidly during the Iranian Revolution in the years 1978-1979. Agriculture techniques grew as the poor did not change.Ayatollah Komeini became leader after Iranian revolution but, the ayatollah didn't like the U.S.A. because they liked the former leader.The Iranian people overthrew the Iranian Monarchy and replaced it with the Islamic Republic. The Islamic republic... Revolution of 1978-79... .The sense that in both the agricultural and industrial spheres too much had been attempted too rapidly and that mistakes had been made and expectations disappointed was manifested in demonstrations against the government in 1978; many people were killed, and martial law was imposed in the major cities in September. This ended the relaxation of government controls, begun in 1977, that had encouraged protests and that had led to the emergence of religious activists allied with extremist "Dedicated Fighter" groups, the Mujahedin; these groups were opposed to the influx of foreigners, particularly Americans, and to a westernization they saw as threatening to those traditional values subsumed under the cloak of Shi'ite Islam.On January 16th, 1979, which was officially known as a vacation, the Shah had fled Iran.The overthrowing of the Shah led to the Iranian Revolution .Iran voted by national to become an islamic Republic on april 1, 1979 and to aprove a new democratic constitution. The first major mother in the world [|demonstrations] against the Shah began in January 1968.[|[][|7][|]] Between August and December 1978 [|strikes] and demonstrations paralyzed the country. The Shah left Iran for exile in mid-January 1979, and in the resulting power vacuum two weeks later Ayatollah Khomeini returned to [|Tehran] to a greeting by several million Iranians.[|[] In 1979 a social democracy was formed to end the corruption in Iran.The **Islamic Revolution** (also known as the **Iranian Revolution** or **1979 Revolution** refers to events involving the overthrow of [|Iran's monarchy] (Pahlavi dynasty) under [|Shah] [|Mohammad Reza Pahlavi] and its replacement with an [|Islamic republic] under [|Ayatollah] [|Ruhollah Khomeini], the leader of the [|revolution].The Iranian revolution was when US CIA, and British agencies took down the Socialist goverment in Iran. Once the Shah took power revolts took place and soon the US embassy was tooken hostage. Then the Sah left Iran because of medical problems, and the Ayatolla K. took power the ayatollah then Iran became more religous due to the events.The Iran revolution was started by students who were followers of Aytollah Khomeini. The iranian revolution was the decline of the socialist government.The U.S. and Britain were not happy with the new socialist government that came into power and they launched a campaign against it, causing the government to collapse.Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini who started the conflict and fight for many rights like women voting and other rights for different people that were not open before.When the Shah was kicked out of power, Ayatollah Khomeini came in and took power. The USA and Britain were not happy about this new socialist government, so they made a campaign to overthrow that government. The Islamic Revolution, also known as the Iranian Revolution or 1979 Revolution**,** refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy under Shah Palavi and its replacement with an Islamic under Ayatollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution. The government had been run by the Shah but was overthrown by a fundamentalist Islamic leader Ayatollah Khomeini.The Islamic republic... Revolution of 1978-79... The sense that in both the agricultural and industrial spheres too much had been attempted too rapidly and that mistakes had been made and expectations disappointed was manifested in demonstrations against the government in 1978; many people were killed, and martial law was imposed in the major cities in September. This ended the relaxation of government controls, begun in 1977, that had encouraged protests and that had led to the emergence of religious activists allied with extremist "Dedicated Fighter" groups, the Mujahedin; these groups were opposed to the influx of foreigners, particularly Americans, and to a westernization they saw as threatening to those traditional values subsumed under the cloak of Shi'ite IslamAfter the Shah had left, and the Ayatollah had gained power, hostages were taken from the American embassy, and some of them were not released for over a few months. The Iranian revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of I ran's monarchy under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Rulloah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution. In 1978 the country was paralyzed with demonstrations of violence. It refers to events involving the overthrow of Iran's monarchy (Pahlavi dynasty) under Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and its replacement with an Islamic republic under Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution.

During the Iranian Revolution hostages were taken for no reason by students under Ayatollah Khomeini's rule.