After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, President Bush declared ...
What is a war on terrorism?
100
To illegally take control of an aircraft or other vehicle.
What is hijack?
100
A period of slow economic activity.
What is a recession?
100
The Persian Gulf war was fought between...
Who is Iraq and the United States?
100
This communist country collapsed on December 25, 1991.
What is the Soviet Union?
200
After the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Congress passed...
What is the Patriot Act?
It allowed the government to monitor the American people to find terrorists in our country.
200
The terrorist group responsible for the hijacking of 4 American planes on September 11, 2001.
Who is al-Qaeda?
200
To reject.
What is veto?
200
In 1990, Iraq's army invaded...
What is Kuwait?
200
The Soviet President during the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
300
The leader of the terrorist group, al-Qaeda.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
300
Two planes crashed here that had been hijacked by a terrorist group, al-Qaeda.
What is the World Trade Center towers (twin towers) in New York City?
300
To accuse a government official, especially the President, of a crime.
What is impeach?
300
The Persian Gulf War lasted...
What is 5 weeks?
300
Russia and the U.S. agreed to do what by 2004?
What is destroy most of their nuclear weapons?
400
Al-Qaeda was supported by the government of...
What is Afghanistan?
400
The third hijacked plane crashed into this government building, killing 184 people.
What is the Pentagon?
400
A person chosen by a political party to run for office.
What is a candidate?
400
To resolve conflicts in the Middle East the United States sometimes tried to use...
What is diplomacy? (talk and negotiation)
400
How many independent states came out of the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union?
What is 15?
500
In 2003, the United States invaded and took over Iraq looking for...
What is weapons of mass destruction? (nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons)
500
Where did the 4th hijacked plane crash and why?
It crashed into a field in Pennsylvania because a group of passengers decided to fight back against the hijackers to prevent them from crashing into a building and killing others.
500
The use of violence to promote a cause.
What is terrorism?
500
Why did the United States get involved when Iraq invaded and took over Kuwait?
The U.S. got involved because Kuwait is neighbors with Saudi Arabia and it is located in the Middle East which contains a large amount of the world's oil supply.
500
What do we call the Soviet Union now? (If we looked on a map what name would we see?)