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17 Cards in this Set
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Before WWII, countries of the Middle East were part of this empire.... |
Ottoman Empire |
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Why were many Arabs angered by the creation of Israel? |
Land was taken from them (Palestine) to create Israel |
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Why did the United Nations create Israel in the first place? |
They felt that Jewish people needed a homeland after all of the suffering that they endured throughout the Holocaust. |
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How has the United States helped bring peace to the Middle East? |
by holding several peace talks between leaders of Arab countries and Israel |
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Why did Iraq's dictator, Saddam Hussein, invade the small country of Kuwait in 1990? |
to take back the oil fields and for access to the Persian Gulf |
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Why did the US become involved in the Persian Gulf War? |
a lot of the country's oil came from Kuwait |
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What was the outcome of the Persian Gulf War? |
US troops drove the Iraqi forces out of Kuwait in just 6 weeks |
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What happened to the US on September 11, 2001? |
Terrorists flew 2 planes into the World Trade Center, 1 plane into the Pentagon, and 1 plane crashed into the forest in Pennsylvania |
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Who was the #1 suspect behind the terrorist attack? |
Osama bin Laden |
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What was the purpose of the War on Terrorism? |
to find the people responsible for attacking the US and to prevent future terrorist attacks |
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Why did the US invade Afghanistan in 2001? |
to find Osama bin Laden and to dismantle the Taliban government |
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Why did the US invade Iraq in 2003? |
to find Osama bin Laden and destroy Iraq's secret supply of WMDs |
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When and where was Osama bin Laden found? |
May 2, 2011 in Pakistan |
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Which Soviet leader allowed for freedom of speech throughout the Soviet Union? |
Mikhail Gorbachev |
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What did the Soviet citizens demand now that they could speak against their government? |
independence from the Soviet Union and freedom from communist rule |
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What happened in Germany in 1989? |
The Communist East Berlin government finally opened up its border to democratic West Berlin; people celebrated by destroying the Berlin Wall. |
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When did the Soviet Union collapse and divide into Russia and several other countries? |
1991 |
