Question: When did Gaddafi decide to stage his coup?
Answer: In mid-1969, Idris travelled abroad to spend the summer in Turkey and Greece.

Question: What was Gaddafi's coup called?
Answer: Operation Jerusalem

Question: What did Gaddafi seize during the coup?
Answer: Gaddafi took control of the Berka barracks in Benghazi,

Question: What did Hameidi do during the coup?
Answer: Hameidi was sent to arrest crown prince Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi, and force him to relinquish his claim to the throne.

Question: What countries did Idris visit in the summer of 1969?
Answer: Turkey and Greece

Question: What was the code name for Gaddafi's coup against the monarchy?
Answer: Operation Jerusalem

Question: What leader's forces occupied the barracks in Tripoli?
Answer: Omar Meheisha

Question: Who arrested Sayyid Hasan ar-Rida al-Mahdi as-Sanussi?
Answer: Khweldi Hameidi

Question: What revolutionary leader took control of the anti-aircraft equipment in Tripoli?
Answer: Jalloud

Question: How did Gaddafi announced his leadership?:
Answer: Addressing the populace by radio

Question: List the two names of Gaddafi's coup.
Answer: "White Revolution", although was later renamed the "One September Revolution"

Question: What did Gaddafi tell the people that the revolution represented?
Answer: freedom, socialism, and unity

Question: What did Gaddafi insist that the coup be referred to as?
Answer: a revolution

Question: What was the name of the government Gaddafi set up after overthrowing the monarchy?
Answer: Libyan Arab Republic

Question: What was the Libyan coup called at first?
Answer: White Revolution

Question: What was the Libyan coup later called, when it was renamed for the day it took place?
Answer: One September Revolution

Question: What was the name of the revolutionary group led by Gaddafi?
Answer: Free Officers

Question: How did Gaddafi characterize the monarchy in his radio address?
Answer: reactionary and corrupt

Question: How did Gaddafi staff the RCC members?
Answer: All young men from (typically rural) working and middle-class backgrounds, none had university degrees;

Question: Why did Gaddafi select these men as RCC members?
Answer: they were distinct from the wealthy, highly educated conservatives who previously governed the country.

Question: Whose face was most closely associated with Libya's new government?
Answer: Gaddafi

Question: Did everyone endorse Gaddafi?
Answer: some of the others attempted to constrain what they saw as his excesses

Question: On what date were the members of the RCC announced?
Answer: 10 January 1970

Question: What was the general age group of the members of the RCC?
Answer: young

Question: How many members of the RCC had graduated from university?
Answer: none

Question: What was the sex of all the members of the RCC?
Answer: men

Question: Along with the working class, what was the class background of RCC members?
Answer: middle

Question: What did the RCC do with remnants of the monarchy?
Answer: They purged monarchists and members of Idris' Senussi clan from Libya's political world and armed forces

Question: What happened to Idris?
Answer: Idris was sentenced to execution in absentia.

Question: How did Gaddafi view the elite?
Answer: Gaddafi believed this elite were opposed to the will of the Libyan people and had to be expunged.

Question: What happened to the monarchists and and journalists?
Answer: "People's Courts" were founded to try various monarchist politicians and journalists, and though many were imprisoned, none were executed.

Question: What clan was King Idris part of?
Answer: Senussi

Question: How many people were executed by the People's Courts?
Answer: none

Question: What sentence was given to the absent King Idris?
Answer: execution

Question: Along with the Senussi, who was purged from the military?
Answer: monarchists

Question: Along with journalists, who was tried in the People's Courts?
Answer: monarchist politicians

Question: What was the RCC's view of political parties?
Answer: Ruling by decree, the RCC maintained the monarchy's ban on political parties,

Question: What did Gaddafi do in 1971?
Answer: In September 1971, Gaddafi resigned, claiming to be dissatisfied with the pace of reform, but returned to his position within a month.

Question: What was the impact of incorporating the sharia into the legal system?
Answer: united secular and religious law codes

Question: What did Gaddafi do in 1973?
Answer: In February 1973, he resigned again, once more returning the following month.

Question: In what year did the Revolutionary Intellectuals Seminar occur?
Answer: 1970

Question: In what month and year did Gaddafi first resign?
Answer: September 1971

Question: What did the RCC outlaw in 1970?
Answer: trade unions

Question: What publications were shut down 1972?
Answer: newspapers

Question: In what year did Gaddafi's second resignation occur?
Answer: 1973

Question: What was Libya's main export?
Answer: crude oil

Question: How did Gaddafi's decisions in the oil industry impact other OPEC states?
Answer: In 1970, other OPEC states followed suit, leading to a global increase in the price of crude oil.

Question: What was the main export of Libya?
Answer: crude oil

Question: How much money did Libya accrue in a year as a result of the Tripoli Agreement?
Answer: $1 billion

Question: What organization of oil producers was Libya a part of?
Answer: OPEC

Question: Who was responsible for raising the price of Libyan oil in 1969?
Answer: Jalloud

Question: In 1979, how much did the average per capita income change for Libyans?
Answer: by 1979 the average per-capita income was at $8,170, up from $40 in 1951

Question: How did Libya's gross domestic product increase from 1969 to 1979?
Answer: while gross domestic product had been $3.8 billion in 1969, it had risen to $13.7 billion in 1974, and $24.5 billion in 1979.

Question: What decision allowed Gaddafi to move Libya closer to socialism?
Answer: In September 1973, it was announced that all foreign oil producers active in Libya were to be nationalized.

Question: How did the RCC begin their march toward nationalization?
Answer: starting with the expropriation of British Petroleum's share of the British Petroleum-N.B. Hunt Sahir Field in December 1971.

Question: What company's property did Libya nationalize in December of 1971?
Answer: British Petroleum

Question: In what month and year was a blanket nationalization of foreign oil production proclaimed?
Answer: September 1973

Question: What was Libya's GDP in 1969?
Answer: $3.8 billion

Question: In what year did Libya have a GDP of $24.5 billion?
Answer: 1979

Question: What was Libya's per-capita income in 1951?
Answer: $40

Question: What sort of identity was promoted by the RCC?
Answer: pan-Libyan

Question: What identities did the RCC try to dissuade?
Answer: regional and tribal

Question: Where was the military court located that tried the tribal leaders in 1971?
Answer: Sabha

Question: What were tribal leaders accused of in 1971?
Answer: counter-revolutionary activity

Question: Of what party did Gaddafi become president in this period?
Answer: Arab Socialist Union

Question: On what philosophy was the RCC's social reforms based?
Answer: sharia

Question: What language was used in official communications by the government of Libya?
Answer: Arabic

Question: During what period were oil-funded programs for social welfare created?
Answer: 1969 to 1973

Question: What religion was suppressed in Libya?
Answer: Christian

Question: What beverage did the Libyan government ban?
Answer: alcohol

Question: What philosophy influenced the RCC?
Answer: Arab nationalism

Question: Along with Egypt, Iraq and Sudan, what country's Arab nationalist government recognized the Libyan revolutionary government?
Answer: Syria

Question: What Arab nationalist thinker was influential with the RCC?
Answer: Nasser