Question: What Syrian group did Nasser crack down on?
Answer: communists

Question: What was the Egyptian-Syrian alliance called?
Answer: United Arab Republic

Question: What year was the UAR formed?
Answer: 1958

Question: Who tried to assassinate Nasser?
Answer: King Saud

Question: How was the assassination supposed to have been carried out?
Answer: shoot down Nasser's plane

Question: Who assumed power in Saudi Arabia after the failed assassination attempt?
Answer: King Faisal

Question: What was King Faisal's position toward Nasser?
Answer: opponent

Question: How many members were in the National Assembly?
Answer: 600

Question: How many members of the National Assembly were from Egypt?
Answer: 400

Question: What Soviet leader did Nasser spar with?
Answer: Khrushchev

Question: What did Khrushchev want Nasser to remove the ban on?
Answer: Communist Party

Question: Who were the two National Assembly vice-presidents in Egypt?
Answer: Boghdadi and Amer

Question: Who was Nasser's opponent in Lebanon?
Answer: Camille Chamoun

Question: What did Lebanese pro-Nasser groups want?
Answer: to unite with the UAR

Question: What did Nasser want to deny Chamoun?
Answer: a second presidential term

Question: Who was in charge of dealing with the Lebanon situation?
Answer: Sarraj

Question: What degree of support did pro-Nasser factions in Lebanon receive?
Answer: limited

Question: What two men overthrew the Iraqi monarchy?
Answer: Abdel Karim Qasim and Abdel Salam Aref

Question: What anti-Nasser Iraqi was assassinated?
Answer: Nuri al-Said

Question: Where did US Marines land?
Answer: Lebanon

Question: Why did Jordan and Lebanon seek outside aid?
Answer: to prevent them from falling to pro-Nasser forces

Question: How did Nasser see the prospects for Arab unity?
Answer: unblocked

Question: Who did Nasser appoint to run Syria?
Answer: Sarraj

Question: What was Syria like under Sarraj?
Answer: police state

Question: Who did Lebanon elect in 1958?
Answer: Fuad Chehab

Question: How did relations between Lebanon and the UAR change with Chehab's election?
Answer: improved considerably

Question: In what year did Nasser and Chehab agree to end the Lebanon crisis?
Answer: 1959

Question: What Iraqi leader clashed with Nasser?
Answer: Qasim

Question: What did Quasm do to anger Nasser?
Answer: suppressed a rebellion in Mosul

Question: What did Nasser suppress as a result?
Answer: Egyptian communist activity

Question: What old ally did Nasser turn against?
Answer: Khaled Mohieddin

Question: What Syrian social group opposed the UAR?
Answer: elites

Question: How was Syria's economy fairing under the arrangement?
Answer: worsening

Question: How did Nasser respond to economic problems in Syria?
Answer: nationalized wide-ranging sectors of the Syrian economy

Question: What did Nasser do to Sarraj to try and help the political situation?
Answer: dismissed

Question: What industry did Nassir nationalize in 1960?
Answer: press

Question: What Syrian anti-Nasser group lauched a coup?
Answer: secessionist army units

Question: In what year did Syria leave the UAR?
Answer: 1961

Question: Where did Nasser send Egyptian special forces?
Answer: Latakia

Question: What happened to Nasser after the breakup of the UAR?
Answer: nervous breakdown

Question: How was Nasser's health after the breakup of the UAR?
Answer: his health began to deteriorate

Question: What country experienced a coup in 1962?
Answer: North Yemen

Question: What country agreed to help suppress the Yemeni rebellion?
Answer: Saudi Arabia

Question: Which side of the civil war did Nasser side with?
Answer: the new government

Question: In what year did Egypt leave Yemen's civil war?
Answer: 1967

Question: How did Nasser characterize Egypt's involvement in Yemen's civil war?
Answer: miscalculation

Question: What groups completed a coup in Iraq?
Answer: Ba'athist–Nasserist alliance

Question: Who became the new Iraqi president after the coup?
Answer: Abdel Salam Aref

Question: What caused the agreement to fail?
Answer: Syria's Ba'athists purged Nasser's supporters

Question: How did Nasser describe the Ba'athists?
Answer: fascists

Question: What river did the Israelis want to divert?
Answer: Jordan River

Question: How did Syria and Jordan see Israel's plans?
Answer: act of war

Question: What leader did Nasser bond with durin gthe negotiations?
Answer: King Hussein

Question: What organization was formed as a result of the talks?
Answer: Palestine Liberation Organization

Question: Who was set to lead the PLO?
Answer: Ahmad Shukeiri

Question: In what year was the Non-Aligned Movment formed?
Answer: 1961

Question: Who was named leader of the NAM in 1964?
Answer: Nasser

Question: What global conflict was the NAM made to counter?
Answer: Cold War

Question: What continent did Nasser help to attain political stability?
Answer: African

Question: Who did Nasser give asylum to?
Answer: anti-colonial leaders from several African countries

Question: What type of programming was broadcast from Cairo?
Answer: anti-colonial propaganda

Question: What African group did Nasser help to form?
Answer: Organisation of African Unity

Question: What year was the OAU formed?
Answer: 1963

Question: What country did Nasser want to be the leader of the Arab world?
Answer: Egypt

Question: What two disparate ideologies was Nasser trying to unite?
Answer: Islamic and socialist

Question: What religious group did Nasser endeavor to reform?
Answer: al-Azhar

Question: What religious group was Nasser seeking to marginalize?
Answer: Muslim Brotherhood

Question: What military entity did Nasser create in 1961?
Answer: Presidential Council

Question: As opposed to personal loyalty, what basis should military promotions be given, according to Nasser?
Answer: merit

Question: Why did Nasser abandon the Presidential Council?
Answer: Amer's allies in the officers corps threatened to mobilize against him

Question: What leader was sidelined by the Presidential Council?
Answer: Amer

Question: What was the Presidential Council meant to do?
Answer: approve all senior military appointments

Question: From whom did Nasser want to seize control of Egypt's military?
Answer: Amer

Question: Who blinked in the confrontation between Nasser and Amer?
Answer: Nasser

Question: How did Amer respond to Nasser's attempts to marginalize him?
Answer: directly confronting Nasser

Question: How did Nasser deal with the stress of the UAR's collapse and Amer's intransigence?
Answer: painkillers

Question: From what chronic illness was Nasser suffering?
Answer: diabetes

Question: What political ideology did Nasser wholeheartedly back in 1961?
Answer: socialism

Question: What was the document Nasser backed to push his socialist reforms?
Answer: National Charter

Question: What infrastructure project was part of the National Charter?
Answer: widening the Suez Canal

Question: What year was the National Charter released?
Answer: 1962

Question: What type of health care program was put forth in the National Charter?
Answer: universal

Question: What percentage of business did the Egyptian government own in 1962?
Answer: 51

Question: What was the new name for the National Union?
Answer: Arab Socialist Union

Question: What was the expression of Nasser's reforms on the street?
Answer: repression

Question: What group was targeted with imprisonment?
Answer: Islamists

Question: How did two of Nasser's top aids respond to the new measures?
Answer: submit their resignations in protest

Question: What was Nasser's political opposition like in the 1965 election?
Answer: He was the only candidate

Question: The leader of what organization was imprisoned by Nasser?
Answer: Muslim Brotherhood

Question: What was Qutb's sentence?
Answer: executed

Question: What economic element did Nasser try to encourage with bank loans?
Answer: private sector

Question: How did Egypt's economy do during the 1960s?
Answer: from sluggishness to the verge of collapse