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level: Why was there a revolution in Iran in 1979?

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Question	Answer
What does APOC stand for?	Anglo-Persian Oil Company
The meeting of the big three (FDR, Churchill, Stalin) 1943 took place in which Iranian city?	Tehran
Mohammed Massadeq was given what position by the Shah in 1951?	Prime-minister
The year that the coup d'etat took place in Iran	1953
The Shah signed an anti-Soviet alliance with Britain and the USA in...	1955
in 1971 the Shah held a huge celebration (2500 years of Monarchy), which was estimated to have cost...	$330 million
Many Iranians saw the Shah as...	a pawn in the hands of the USA
The leading critic of the Shar was...	Ayatollah Khomeini
Ayatollah Khomeini was banished from Iran in...	1964
The people of Iran started huge demonstrations against the Shah in...	1978
The Shah left Iran in...	1979
The Islamic Republic of Iran was declared in...	1979
Mohammed Massadeq was made Prime Minister of Iran in...	1951
In 1914 the British government purchased 51% of...	APOC