The Bush Administration claimed that Saddam Hussein and the Iraqi government were hiding these in their country in order to hurt Americans.
What are WMDs?
100
On March 17, 2003, President Bush gave Saddam Hussein and his sons this much time to step down or risk an invasion by US forces.
What is 48 hours?
100
This ethnic group felt unfairly treated after the invasion because they felt that the Shi'a was getting all the jobs and special treatment from the government.
What is the Sunni?
100
This disorder affects many Iraq war veterans and makes it difficult for them to re-integrate into American society after they return from the war.
What is PTSD?
200
In August 2002, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said that the Iraqi government was supporting which international terrorist group?
What is al Qaeda?
200
The US bombing campaign of Iraq was an intense, overwhelming effort known as what?
What is "shock and awe"?
200
This group of people led armed resistance against the U.S. troops and Americans working in Iraq?
What is the insurgency?
200
Critics of the invasion of Iraq in 2003 said that the U.S. didn't actually want to remove a threat; instead, they said that the U.S. was motivated by the desire for this natural resource.
What is oil?
300
In September 2002, the US intelligence agency released reports that Iraq was seeking yellowcake uranium from Niger in order to develop this type of weapons program.
What is a nuclear weapons program?
300
It took American troops this many weeks to reach the center of Baghdad and take over the government of Iraq.
What is three weeks?
300
Iraqi society has suffered from this phenomenon, which is when well educated professionals fled the country in order to seek better opportunities for themselves and their families.
What is the "brain drain"?
300
The war in Iraq caused many U.S allies around the world to feel this way toward the U.S.
What is resentment and anger?
400
Before the invasion, UN weapons inspectors went to Iraq to search for WMDs and found this many WMD.
What is zero WMD?
400
On May 1st, 2003, President Bush gave a press conference on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific under a banner with what message on it?
What is "Mission Accomplished"?
400
This agency was responsible for overseeing the political and economic reconstruction of Iraq and for running the Iraq government for the first year after the war.
What is the CPA?
400
The war in Iraq ended up costing this much money to American taxpayers, which has frustrated and upset many U.S. citizens.
What is 700 billion dollars?
500
Right before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, this percentage of American citizens supported going to war in Iraq.
What is 60-70%?
500
After American troops took control of Iraq, they thoroughly searched the country and found this many WMD.
What is zero WMD?
500
As of 2011, estimates of Iraqis killed during the occupation ranges from 100,000 to this number.
What is 1 million?
500
Many Americans were horrified by the torture and ill-treatment in this prison in Iraq.