The Iraq war
80 precent of ___ aproved of what?
"80 precent of the Iraqi people aproved that constitution and that federal system"
He left on horseback around December 16, 2001.
How and when did bin Laden escape?
2,996 people
How many lives were lost on 9/11/2001?
George H. W. Bush.
Who was president during the Persian Gulf War?
Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Jordan, and Yemen.
Which countries are members of the Arab Leauge?
Which Islamic group ran Iraq for many years?
Sunni Muslims ran Iraq for many years.
Because of a terrible loss at Mazar-e-Sharif
The Taliban retreated in November of 2001.
al Qaeda
Which terrorist organization funded 9/11?
Operation Desert Storm or the First Gulf War.
What are other names of the Persian Gulf war?
Israel allied with Great Britan and France to..
Who did Israel ally with to take control of the Suez Canal?
How long have the Kurds been running their own regional government?
13 years; thought they didnt have a countriy for themselves.
President Karazi was...
The first democratically elected head of Afghanistan.
Who was behind 9/11 and funded the coup?
Osama bin Laden
President Saddam Hussein of Iraq ordered the invasion of Kuwait in 1900.
What happened before the Persian Gulf War?
The important artificial waterway connected the Mediterranean Sea to the Red Sea.
Why was the Suez Canal important?
What did Saddam Hussein do to retain power?
He tried to suppress the countries minorities, such as Shi'ites and Kurds.
This president speaks at the Virginia Military Institute, calling for the reconstruction of Afghanistan.
What did President Bush do on April 17, 2002?
125 military personnel were ___ during when?
How many were killed when American Airlines Flight 77 crashed into in the west side of the Pentagon miltary HQ?
Two-thirds of the Arab League.
How many people in the Arab League disagreed with what Iraq's president did?
In what war did the Israeli military take control of East Jerusalem, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Sinai Peninsula, and the Golan Heights?
The Six-Day War, in 1967.
Why did the National Assembly back down on the new idea?
It gave different communities the freedom to run their own affairs and kept different ethnities together.
Three weeks after President Karazi's election, on Oct. 29 2004, a man released a videotape. Who is he? What does he talk about?
On October 29, 2004, bin Laden released a videotape, taunting the Bush administration and taking responsibility for the 9/11 attacks
Four commercial planes were hijacked on 9/11, which THREE airports did they take off from?
1) Logan International Airport in Boston; 2) Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C; 3) Newark International Airport in New Jersey
Saudi Arabia's king and Kuwait's exiled government turned to these people/countries.
The US and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
The US wanted to bring peace between Israel and its neighbors, and when the three leaders met, they agreed on something called the Camp David Accords.