Research Paper on:
Libya Since 1945

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between the United States and Libya. There is little doubt that from its very inception, Libya has been a troubled nation, beset with infighting, upheaval and corrupt governments.  Libya, officially known as the Socialist Peoples Libyan Arab Jamahirya, is located in the Middle East on the Mediterranean Sea (Libya, 1993). During the  19th century, the country was primarily controlled by the Ottoman Empire (Libya, 1993). Following the Turco-Italian War of 1911-1912, however, Turkey granted Tripoli and North Libya (which are now Libya  today) independence, even though the Italians continued to rule much of the country before World War II (Libya, 1993). After the Allied victory in North Africa over Italy and Germany,  Libya was placed under an Anglo-French military government (Libya, 1993). However, when Great Britain, France, the United States and the Soviet Union were unable to agree on the future of  this country, the United Nations decided that Libya should become an independent country by 1952 (Libya, 1993). Some backroom maneuvering between the  United States and Great Britain, however, determined that the British should hold trusteeship over Cyrenaica, France over Fezzan and Italy over Tripolitania (Shalom, 2002). In 1959, then, the trusteeships would  come to an end, and Libya would be independent (Shalom, 2002). A subcommittee of the U.N. General Assembly voted to approve the agreement, with strong support of the United States  (Shalom, 2002). The Libyans, however, were outraged and rioted in the streets, with crowds denouncing the United States, Britain and Italy (Shalom, 2002). In addition, the vote of the U.N.  General Assembly subcommittee fell short of the necessary two-thirds majority for the "trusteeship," so Libya became an independent country, and one that mistrusted the United States for its callous disregard