1963 – Ba'th Party comes to power in Iraq under the leadership of General Ahmad Hasan al-Bakr and Colonel Abdul Salam Arif 1964 – Abdul Rahman Arif stages military coup in Iraq against the Ba'th Party and brings his brother, Abdul Salam Arif, to power 1967 – Six-Day War, Israel occupies the Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, West Bank and Gaza Strip 1967 – Kurds revolt in Western Iran, the revolt is crushed 1968 – Ba'athists stage second military coup under General Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, Saddam Hussein is made vice president of Iraq 1970 – Gamal Abdel Nasser dies, Anwar Sadat becomes president of Egypt 1971 – The Aswan High Dam is completed with Soviet help in finance and construction; independence of Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain and the UAE 1973 – Yom Kippur War 1974 – The PLO is allowed to represent the people of Palestine in the UN 1974 to 1975 – Second Kurdish-Iraqi War 1975 to 1990 – Lebanese Civil War 1976 – Syria invades Lebanon 1978 – Camp David Accords 1979 – Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq; Iranian Revolution; Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty 1980 to 1989 – Iran–Iraq War results in 1–1.25 million casualties, Iraq uses chemical weapons against Iran and rebel Kurds; large scale economical devastation and surge in oil prices affect the global world economy 1981 – Murder of Anwar Sadat 1982 – Israel invades Lebanon 1987 to 1990 – First Intifada 1991 – The Gulf War 1993 – Oslo Accords 1994 – 1994 civil war in Yemen