The Iraq War (2003-2011)
In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy
Iraqi weapons of mass destruction
Al-Qaeda operatives hijack four commercial airliners, crashing them into
the World Trade Center in New York/twin towers and the Pentagon in Washington, DC
On September 11, 2001, at 8:45 a.m. on a clear Tuesday morning, an 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./twin tower
Hussein delivered a speech in which he accused neighboring nation Kuwait of
siphoning crude oil from the Ar-Rumaylah oil fields
Soon after _____ ___ __, Kemal led the Turks in a war of independence against ______.
World War I, Greece
When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent insurgency arose, the war lost
public support
President Bush calls for the reconstruction of what in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute.
Afghanistan
As millions watched the events unfolding in New York, American Airlines Flight 77 circled over downtown Washington, D.C., before crashing into the west side of the
Pentagon military headquarters at 9:45 a.m.
In justifying his invasion of Kuwait in August 1990, Saddam Hussein claimed it was an artificial state carved out of the Iraqi coast by
Western colonialists
The heart of the Ottoman Empire had always been ____ _____, which is now modern Turkey
Asia Minor
what happened when saddam was captured
tried, and hanged
President Bush signs into law a joint resolution that dose what
authorizing the use of force against those responsible for attacking the United States
The hijackers were Islamic terrorists from _____ ______ and several other ____ _______.
Saudi Arabia, Arab nations
The Persian Gulf War, also known as
Operation Desert Storm or the First Gulf War
Mustafa Kemal came to be known as Atatürk, which means “______ __ ___ _____.”
“Father of the Turks.”
President Bush declares the end of major combat operations in Iraq from the deck of the aircraft carrier
USS Abraham Lincoln.
with substantial Iranian diplomatic help because of Iran’s support for the Northern Alliance faction, installs who to be interim administration head
Hamid Karzai
At 10:30 a.m., the north building of the twin towers collapsed. Only __ people in the World Trade Center towers at the time of the collapse survived
18people
Operation Desert Storm began with
a massive U.S.-led air offensive
The Ottoman Empire continued to hold the region together, as it had done since the ____s. However, by the start of _____ ___ __ in ____, the empire had fallen into decline.
1300s, World War I in 1914
Bush announces a “new way forward” in Iraq, vowing to commit an additional
twenty thousand troops to bring stability in and around Baghdad
The U.S. military, with British support, begins a bombing campaign against Taliban forces, officially launching Operation
Enduring Freedom
Then, __ minutes after the first plane hit, a second Boeing ___—United Airlines Flight ___
18 minutes Boeing 767—United Airlines Flight 175
Two-thirds of the __ members of the ____ ______ condemned Iraq’s act of aggression
21 members, Arab League
Unlike in Africa or other parts of Asia, European empires had not colonized _________ Asia during the ____s and ____s
Southwest Asia, 1700s and 1800s