The U.S. War in Afghanistan
What year the war end?
2014
What were the buildings Al Qaeda struck?
World Trade Center/Twin Towers and the Pentagon
What country did the U.S. use as a "landing source?"
Saudi Arabia
When was Saddam Hussein executed?
December 30, 2006 by hanging
When did the Israel/Palestine conflict start?
1948
The _______ was a nationalist that took over Afghanistan until October 2001.
Taliban
How many casualties took place during the attacks?
About 3,000 (2,996) deaths
What was "Operation DESERT STORM" and what was it supposed to do?
U.S. and allied ground forces in Iraq and Kuwait defeated a dangerous enemy. On the other hand, the Operation was a failure.
What was the name of the government of Saddam Hussein?
Ba,athist
The main thing Israel and Palestine are fighting over
Land and who gets to control it
What president ended up winning the war?
Barack Obama
Who was claimed to be a mastermind behind the attacks?
Osama bin-Laden
What caused the Gulf War to start?
Iraq's invasion of Kuwait hoping to have control of the oil
How did the Iraq War end in December 2011?
The U.S. had to bring back its troops back from where they came from. Barack Obama declared it in October.
Israel was joined by what two countries in the Suez Canal Crisis?
Britain and France
On September 9, 2001, Al Qaeda operatives assassinated who?
Ahmad Shah Massoud, a commander
How many airliners were hijacked on 9/11?
4
How many Americans were killed during the Persian Gulf War
219 (Approximately)
The U.S. promised to destroy some Iraq weapons. What were those weapons?
The weapons of mass destruction (WMD)
How did the war between Israel and Gaza end?
With an armistice
What were the war's damages for the U.S. and Afghanistan?
1. $2.3 trillion (in military spending)
2. average annual damages of $54 million
Several weeks after the September 11th terrorist strike, the U.S suffered several deaths produced by what?
Anthrax (an infection in the body that produces bacteria, but is very rare to catch)
Saddam Hussein hoped to provoke the Allied Coalition into an early ground war by firing missiles at what country?
Israel
The Iraq War is also known as...
The Second Gulf War
What state in the Middle East has more than 200 nuclear weapons?
Israel