Part I:  The 1979 Revolution

Use the questions below to guide your reading, and then write your answers to the questions on the worksheet.

1.  Who was the leader of Iran at the time of the Revolution?

http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch29ir.html

2.  Why were many working-class and rural communities of people unhappy with the way the government was changing?

http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch29ir.html

3.  What are some of the ways the Shah tried to "westernize" Iran?

http://www.fsmitha.com/h2/ch29ir.html

4.  In 1978, demonstrators were massacred in what city while they protested the Shah's rule?

http://www.wsu.edu:8080/~dee/SHIA/REV.HTM

5.  Who was the leader of the revolutionary movement?

http://www.iranchamber.com/history/rkhomeini/ayatollah_khomeini.php

6.  When was the Shah forced to leave Iran?

http://novaonline.nvcc.edu/eli/evans/his135/Events/Iran79.htm

The Shah of Iran, with his wife, before he was exiled.