The Iraq War
In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, what was this called?
(WMD)
Who surged back to power two decades after U.S.-led?
The Taliban.
What year did the 9/11 attacks happen?
2001
The long-running Iran-Iraq War had ended in a United Nations-brokered ceasefire in August ____, but by mid-1990 the two nations had yet to begin negotiating a permanent peace treaty.
1988
What is a Nation state.
A country that is independent.
When did Maliki form a unity government with Iraqi?
April 2006
When did the UN Security Council adopt Resolution?
1267
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 ____tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
North
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Soon after World War I, Kemal led the Turks in a war of independence against Greece. They achieved victory in ____and established the Republic of Turkey.
1923
Sunni Muslim extremists destroy the what in 2006?
The gilded Shiite shrine in Samarra.
More than _____ Afghans turn out to vote for the Wolesi Jirga (Council of People), the Meshrano Jirga (Council of Elders), and local councils.
6 Million
The 19 terrorists smuggled box-cutters and ____ through security
Knives
In all, an estimated _____ to 10,000 Iraqi forces were killed, in comparison with only 300 coalition troops. Though the Gulf War was recognized as a decisive victory for the coalition, Kuwait and Iraq suffered enormous damage, and Saddam Hussein was not forced from power.
8000
Kemal became Turkey’s ____president.
Who asks incumbent Defense Secretary Gates to stay on?
The president at the time Obama.
Sixty-eight out of ____ seats are set aside for female members of Afghanistan’s lower house of parliament
249
Jet fuel from the Boeing ____ caused a devastating inferno that led to the structural collapse of a portion of the giant concrete building, which is the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense.
757
On November 29, _____, the U.N. Security Council authorized the use of “all necessary means” of force against Iraq if it did not withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991.
1990
In _____, the Ottomans began to persecute the Armenians.
1915
How many weeks after the invasion did the Iraqi civilians and U.S. soldiers pull down a statue of Saddam in Baghdad’s Firdos Square?
3 Weeks
23 out of ___ are reserved in the upper house.
102
From 2001 to 2004, over ___billion dollars in compensation was given to families of the 9/11 victims and the 2,680 people injured in the attacks.
7 billion dollars
In all, an estimated ______ to ______ Iraqi forces were killed, in comparison with only 300 coalition troops.
8,000 - 10,000
. In the _____s and ____s, hastened in part by World War II, many mandates claimed independence.
1930s 1940s