The Iraq War (2003-2011)
The group of people who for 13 years had been running their own regional government successfully.
Who are the Kurds?
Who is Osama bin Laden?
The date that four commercial passenger airplanes were hijacked and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States.
What is September, 11 2001?
The other name for the Persian Gulf War which began in 1991.
What is Operation Desert Storm?
The group of countries that attacked Israel in 1948.
Who is the Arab League?
When U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destory Iraqi weapons of mass destruction and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein.
What is March 2003?
The man who called for the reconstruction of Afghanistan in a speech at the Virginia Military Institute.
Who is President Bush?
The time on a clear Tuesday morning, when an American Boeing 767 crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City.
What is 8:45am?
When the first U.S. Air Force fighter planes began arriving in Saudi Aradia as part of this military build up.
What is Operation Desert Shield?
An agreement to end fighting in a war.
What is an armistice?
What is December 14, 2003?
The end of the Taliban regime, when the Taliban surrender Kandahar and Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar flee the city.
What is December 9, 2001?
The second location to be attacked on 9/11, by hijacked American Airlines Flight 77 at 9:45am.
What is the Pentagon?
The leader who agreed to the peace terms to get rid of all Iraq's weapons of mass destruction (including nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.)
Who is Saddam Hussein?
What is the Six-Day War?
The man who became prime minister in April 2006, and was a longtime Iraqi politician with close ties to Iran, who formed a unity government with Iraqi Kurds and Sunnis.
Who is Nouri al-Maliki?
The first major ground assault and the largest operation since Tora Bora, which was launched against an estimated 800 al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters in the Shah-i-Kot Valley.
What is Operation Anaconda?
The total number of people killed in the 9/11 attacks, including terrorist hijackers and citizens from 78 countries.
What is 2,996?
A massive allied ground offensive, launched on February 24, with troops headed from Saudi Arabia into Kuwait and Iraq.
What is Operation Desert Sabre?
The Jewish holy day on which Egypt and Syria attacked Israel again, hoping to regain their lost territories.
What is Yom Kippur?
The man who campaigned to withdraw combat troops in Iraq within sixteen months of taking office, who was elected the forty-fourth president of the United States on November 4th.
Who is Barack Obama?
What is the Bonn Agreement?
The American-led international effort to oust the Taliban regime in Afghanistan and destroy Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, which began on October 7, 2001.
What is Operation Enduring Freedom?
When Hussein broke off negotiations and ordered the invasion of Kuwait.
What is August 2, 1990?
In 1956, these two countries allied with Israel, tried to take control of the Suez Canal.
What is Great Britian and France?