Iraq War
What percentage of the National Assembly backed the idea of moving forward on the federal system because it’s a way of letting the different communities run their own affairs and, at the same time, keeping the country together?
80%
What year did the The UN Security Council adopt the Resolution , creating the so-called al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, which links the two groups as terrorist entities and imposes sanctions on their funding, travel, and arms shipments?
year 1267
How many people were killed in the 9/11 terrorist attacks, including the 19 al Qaeda terrorists?
almost 3,000
When did the gulf war began?
On November 29, 1990, the U.N.
What were the post world war mandates by the early 1900s?
Great changes began to happen in southwest Asia. unlike in Africa or other parts of Asia.
How many years have the Kurds been running their own regional government and very successfully?
13 years
in Washington, DC. A fourth plane crashes in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania how many people died?
Close to three thousand people die in the attacks.
American Airlines Boeing 767 loaded with 20,000 gallons of jet fuel crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.The impact left a gaping, burning hole near what floors?
The 93rd and 99th floors of the 110-story skyscraper
Who Won The Persian Gulf War?
Bush declared a ceasefire on February 28, ending the Persian Gulf War.
How did the birth go of modern turkey?
The mandate system tried to place turkey under Greece's control, but the turks resisted. They wanted to establish a new Turkish nation.
How do you convince the Shi’ites?
Basically, you’ve got to convince them that, if they try to run the whole country, they’re going to be faced with endless insurgencies themselves.
Who is responsible for attacking the United States on September 11?
President Bush
Where Did the 9/11 Planes Take Off From?
The 19 terrorists smuggled box-cutters and knives through security at three East Coast airports—Logan International Airport in Boston, Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C. and Newark International Airport in New Jersey
What was the Aftermath of the Persian Gulf War?
In the immediate aftermath of the war, Hussein’s forces brutally suppressed uprisings by Kurds in the north of Iraq and Shi’ites in the south.
who during the World War 1, the Ottoman Empire drawn into conflict with?
Russia
Why did The chairman and I have a little disagreement over what that military plan should look like?
because I don’t see it in terms of any fixed timetables.
After tracking al-Qaeda leader bin Laden to the well-equipped Tora Bora cave complex southeast of Kabul, Afghan militias engage in a fierce two-week battle (December 3 to 17) with al-Qaeda militants. It results in what?
a few hundred deaths and the eventual escape of bin Laden, who is thought to have left for Pakistan on horseback on December 16—just a day before Afghan forces capture twenty of his remaining men.
How Many People Died in the 9/11 Attacks?
A total of 2,996 people were killed in the 9/11 attacks, including the 19 terrorist hijackers aboard the four airplanes.
In 2002, the United States (now led by President George W. Bush, son of the former president) sponsored a new U.N. resolution calling for the return of?
weapons inspectors to Iraq; U.N. inspectors reentered Iraq that November.
In 1967, a new conflict erupted. Egypt, Jordon, and Syria attacked Israel in what as known as?
The six day War.
In the first place, it allows us to move toward an alliance with many of the Sunnis in the center of that country, with the Ba’athists, with the sheikhs and with the secular leaders of that society why?
Because once they see we’re not going to be there and remain their central enemy, they can band with us against the common enemy, the terrorists in their midst: the jihadis, the al Qaeda people.
During a briefing with reporters in Kabul, U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld declares what?
an end to major combat.
Who was President of America and responded to the Attacks?
At 7 p.m., President George W. Bush, who was in Florida at the time of the attacks and had spent the day being shuttled around the country because of security concerns, returned to the White House.
Bush—without further U.N. approval—issued an ultimatum on March 17, 2003, demanding that?
Saddam Hussein step down from power and leave Iraq within 48 hours.
From the 1930s untill 1979 a series of different goverments controlled?
Iraq