POL-UA 540 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, Mohammad Mosaddegh, Reza Shah
27 Oct 2016
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Truman doctrine: us must keep ussr out of turkey and greece. Nato: treats greece and turkey as member states. Baghdad pact: between turkey, iran, iraq, and more eastern countries. Doesn"t oppose political participation and encourages competition because nato states that members must support democratic principles. 1961 - first instance in which military steps into return turkey to kemalism. Allies remove reza shah from power, replace him with his son (mohammad. National front emerges, headed by mohammad mossadeq. Aims at democratization and seizing oil assets from british oil company. Britain wants to remove mossadeq from power, asks for support from the us under truman, who refuses. Us eventually gets worries about ussr encroaching and as a result, the us under eisenhower agrees to help britain remove mossadeq from power and reinstate the shah by presenting mossadeq as the worst and making him a. The us eventually aids in a coup. Geopolitical rivalry shaped domestic politics in the 1950"s and 1960"s.
