People
President during the 9/11 attacks.
Who was George W. Bush?
What is the Patriot Act?
Controlled the eastern portion of Berlin.
What is the USSR?
Was divided up and controlled by several countries after World War II.
What was Germany?
Started out as a farmer before becoming the leader of a country.
Who is Mikael Gorbachev?
Formed the group Al-Qaeda.
Who was Osama bin Laden?
This is one of the demands President Bush made to the terrorists after 9/11.
What is...(see the list)?
Became the head of the USSR in 1985 and didn't believe communism was best for the country.
Who was Mikael Gorbachev?
Meant to keep people from migrating between East and West Germany.
What was the Berlin Wall?
This was one of the allowances made by the Patriot Act.
Reagan's economic plan for the U.S.
What is Reaganomics?
This department was created as a response to the 9/11 attacks.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
Supported anti-communist insurgencies around the world.
What is the Reagan Doctrine?
What did the Berlin Wall surround?
Represented the end of the Cold War.
What is the Berlin Wall coming down?
Ordered his military to invade Kuwait.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
During this operation coalition forces, led by U.S. troops, invaded Kuwait and forced the Iraqi military out of the country.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
2 Part Question:
_____ was meant to change the government away from communism
_____ was meant to increase the rights of citizens
What is Perestroika and Glasnost?
The purpose of this program was to decrease the number of nuclear weapons and increase relations between the U.S. and the USSR.
What was the Cooperative Threat Reduction Program?
These are two reasons planes were hijacked in the 1980s and 90s.
What is 1) Destination and 2) Extortion (money or release of prisoners)?
Created a coalition of countries to protect Saudi Arabia and launch and attack in Kuwait to repel Iraqi forces.
Who was George H.W. Bush?
The War on Terror began with this.
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
A failing ____ caused the citizens to suffer and rebel against the communist government.
What is the economy?
This is how both Germany and Berlin were divided.
What is the U.S., Britain, and France in the West and USSR in the East?
Who are The Taliban?