{"id":3744,"date":"2016-04-17T19:49:26","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T16:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3744"},"modified":"2016-03-16T19:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:50:07","slug":"sourcework-practice-causes-of-the-iran-iraq-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/sourcework-practice-causes-of-the-iran-iraq-war\/","title":{"rendered":"Sourcework Practice: Causes of the Iran-Iraq War"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/igcse\/why_did_events_in_the_gulf_matter.php\">Part of the IGCSE Paper 2 Study Topic: &#8220;Why did Events in the Gulf Matter?&#8221;<\/a><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/why_did_events_in_the_gulf_matter\/iran-iraq-war2.docx\">Sourcework Practice: Causes of the Iran-Iraq War<\/a><br \/>\n1. According to Source A,\u00a0<strong>why<\/strong>\u00a0did Saddam Hussein decide to invade Iran in September 1980?<br \/>\nTIP: as with any \u2018why\u2019 question, provide several reasons, substantiated with quotes from the sources.<br \/>\n2.\u00a0<strong>How reliable<\/strong>\u00a0is Source B to the historian researching the reasons why the Iran-Iraq war lasted for as long as it did? Explain your answer using details from the source<strong><u>s<\/u><\/strong>\u00a0and your own knowledge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the IGCSE Paper 2 Study Topic: &#8220;Why did Events in the Gulf Matter?&#8221; Sourcework Practice: Causes of the Iran-Iraq War 1. According to Source A,\u00a0why\u00a0did Saddam Hussein decide to invade Iran in September 1980? TIP: as with any \u2018why\u2019 question, provide several reasons, substantiated with quotes from the sources. 2.\u00a0How reliable\u00a0is Source B&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/sourcework-practice-causes-of-the-iran-iraq-war\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[502,504,333,396],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Yo","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3745,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3744\/revisions\/3745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}