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US Presidents
Operation Ajax
Iranian Revolution
Iran-Iraq War
Iran-Contra
100
This Cold Warrior approved Operation Ajax
Who is Eisenhower?
100
What two intelligence agencies planned Operation Ajax
What is the CIA and MI6
100
He was overthrown in 1979
Who is the Shah of Iran (Reza Pavlovi)?
100
The years that the war lasted
What is 1990-1988?
100
Fawn Hall helped Ollie North by doing this
What is "shredding documents"?
200
He tried to rescue the American hostages, but failed
Who is Jimmy Carter?
200
The modern name of the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
What is BP or British Petroleum?
200
this cutting edge technology allowed the Ayatollah to spread his message from exile
What is the Cassette Tape?
200
Two things that the war had in common with WW1
What are trench warfare and chemical weapons?
200
The reason why Ollie North sold weapons to the Iranians illegally
What is "to arm the Contras"
300
The Iran-Contra Scandal marked his second administration
who is Ronald Reagan?
300
This post-WW2 conflict played a large part in the coup
What is the Cold War?
300
53 and 444
What is the number people and days that Iran held the American Hostages?
300
The number of dead in the war
What is "over 1 million"?
300
The Contras were trying to overthrow this country's government
What is Nicaragua?
400
He pardoned all of those convicted in The Iran-Contra Scandal
Who is George Herbert Walker Bush?
400
It's not easy being... the grandson of a president and plotting coups
Who is Kermit Roosevelt?
400
The form of government and type of law created by the revolution in Iran
What is a Theocracy and Sharia Law?
400
Iraq used chemical weapons against these two groups of people
Who are the Iranians and the Kurds?
400
Congress made it illegal to arm the Contras because of these two activities
What are Drug Trafficking and Death Squads?
500
He supported Mossedegh for his anti-communist stance
Who is Harry Truman?
500
He was removed from office after the CIA hired a street mob and paid off the army and the police
Who is Prime Minister Mossedegh?
500
He returned from exile to rule Iran after the fall of the Shah
Who is the Ayatollah Khomeini?
500
The US secretly supported both sides in the war for this reason
What is "wanting to see them weaken each other"?
500
The reason Casper Weinberger, John Poindexter and Ollie North never went to jail or told what really happened
What is "a presidential pardon from George Bush"?