American Intervention in The Middle East - The Six Day War and Black September

The Six Day War and Black September

For more details on Black September, see Black September in Jordan . For more details on The Six Day War, see The Six Day War .

In 1963, after unsuccessful results from supporting anti-government Kurdish rebels in Iraq, the U.S. decides to support a coup by the Ba’ath party to overthrow the Qassim regime, which has maintained relations with the Soviet Union and allowed the existence of the Iraqi Communist Party. Moreover, in June 1967 Israel is attacked by Egypt, Jordan, and Syria, precipitating the short Six Day War in which Israel annexes the West Bank, Golan Heights, and Sinai Peninsula. The U.S. supports Israel with weapons and continues to support Israel financially throughout the 1970s. On September 17, 1970: With U.S. and Israeli help, Jordanian troops attack PLO guerrilla camps, while Jordan's U.S.-supplied air force drops napalm from above. U.S. deploys the aircraft carrier Independence and six destroyers off the coast of Lebanon and readies troops in Turkey to support the assault.

The American interventions in the years before the Iranian revolution have all showed to be based on economics, but more so have been influenced and led by the international Cold War context.