What is Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries?
100
Iran is currently engaged in research that many nations, included the United States, fear could result in Iran having these weapons
What are nuclear weapons?
100
These attacks on the World Trade Center in New York and the Pentagon eventually led to the War on Terror
What are the 9/11 attacks?
100
These are weapons designed to kill large numbers of people, such as nuclear and chemical weapons
What are weapons of mass destruction?
100
Congress voted to impeach this president after he lied to a grand jury regarding his relationship with Monica Lewinsky and the Senate voted to spare his presidency
Who is Bill Clinton?
200
This was a monumental agreement signed by the United States, Israel, and Egypt after President Carter brokered a deal between Egypt and Israel during meetings at Camp David
What is the Camp David Accords?
200
Iran claims that their only interest is in developing nuclear power for peaceful use; however, Iran's rich supply of this means that it does not need nuclear power as an alternative fuel source
What is oil?
200
This is the federal department established after September 11, 2001 for the purpose of protecting the nation against further terrorist attacks
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
200
On the belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al-Qaeda this war was launched in 2003 to invaded Iraq
What is the war in Iraq?
200
This was a political scandal that arose from the fact that several people close to President Nixon planned a failed break-in of Democratic headquarters that resulted in the arrest of five men
What is the Watergate scandal?
300
These are natives of Palestine who greatly resented the United Nations recognizing the modern state of Israel as a sovereign Jewish state
What are the Palestinians?
300
This was an incident that lasted from November 1979 to January 1981, in which Iranian revolutionaries stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took the people inside hostage
What is the Iranian hostage crisis?
300
This law passed by Congress increased the authority of U.S. law enforcement agencies and allowed them greater latitude in what measure they used to obtain information
What is the PATRIOT Act?
300
After becoming president, he initiated a troop withdraw from Iraq, pledging to remove most of the U.S. soldiers serving in Iraq by the end of 2010
Who is President Barack Obama?
300
Nixon became the only president in history to do this because he would have been impeached (charged with wrongdoing while in office) by the House and likely found guilty by the Senate
What is resign?
400
This the 1973 war in which Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on the eve Yom Kippur
What are Yom Kippur War?
400
When President Carter allowed this man to enter the United States to undergo medical treatment, an enraged Iranian mob stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran (Iran's capital) and took all those inside hostage
Who is Shah of Iran?
400
This was the nation where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda enjoyed protection prior to the War on Terror
What is Afghanistan?
400
This revolution was an intense period of political protest in 2011 that forced President Hosni Mubarak to give up power after over thirty years in office
What is the Egyptian Revolution?
400
He testified on national television in his Marine Corps uniform about the arrangements to secretly sell arms to Iran for help securing the release of hostages held in Lebanon
Who is Oliver North?
500
This is the official Jewish state founded in what was formally Palestine in 1948
What is Israel?
500
As one final act of defiance against Jimmy Carter, the Iranians waited until he officially took the oath of office before allowing the hostages to leave Iran
Who is Ronald Reagan?
500
The U.S. launched this operation designed to destroy the government that offered a safe haven to al-Qaeda and bring bin Laden to justice
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
500
This country experienced a civil war in 2011 and the United States with other nations undertook military operation against this country to enforce a United Nations resolution meant to stop the bloodshed
What is Libya?
500
This was a scandal that arose during the Reagan administration that involved the sale of U.S. arms to Iran in exchange for help securing the release of hostages and money that was then funneled illegally to the Contras in Nicaragua