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Mohammad Reza Shah fled Iran. First Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan resigned.
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Began with Mohammad Reza Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini. Shah used secret police to control Iran and Khomeini told people of this with his music.
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Support included billions of dollars worth of economic aid, sale of dual-use tech., non-U.S. origin weaponry, etc.
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Iranian Islamic students stormed the U.S. embassy taking 66 people as hostages. New Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar and Supreme army counsils couldn't control the situation in the country any more.
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Invasion initially involved 30,000 troops. It ultimately grew to 100,000 troops. War left Afghanistan with severe political, economic, and ecological problems.
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War was between the Soviet Union and Islamic groups of Afghanistan who were against the Communist government set up by the Soviet Union. The Afghanistan rebels, called Mujaheddin, opposed the Soviet invasion. They were armed by the U.S. and they fough the Soviets until Soviets were forced to withdraw.
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Iraq invaded Iran claming their military was to weak to fight back. Other reasons for the war included land/territory and religion. Although both nations are Muslim, Iraq was Sunni and Iran was Shiite.
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President Reagan's administration supplied weapons to Iran through Isreal and North Korea ( during Iran-Iraq war) in hopes of securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by Hezbollah terrorists who worked for Iran's leader, Aatollah Khomeini.
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Reagan adminstration were discovered to have used funds raised by arms sales through Isreal to Iran in order to support the activities of the Contra rebels against the Sandinista establishment in Nicaragua.
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The Iran Contra scandal breaks out in the U.S. when reports in Lebanese newspapers forced the Reagan administration to come out with the arms deals.
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Saddam Hussein lauched an invasion for control of Kuwait's oil and wealth.
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Armed forces of Iraq began the invasion of Kuwait. U.S. and other member nations responed by deploying military forces to Saudi Arabia. Goal was to stall Iraqi aggression.
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When it bacame apparent that Saddam Hussien would not withdraw from Kuwait, Desert Shield became Desert Storm. Allies started massive air campaign against Iraq.
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After Iraq's defeat, the U.S.-led U.N. alliance was able to persuade Iraq to agree to an inspection and monitoring system, intended to make sure that Iraq got rid of its WMD programs and did not take actions to bring them back.
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U.S. insists on immediate enforcement of all U.N. security council
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Osama Bin Laden, leader of the international Al Qaeda terrorist group, said that American support for Israel was reason for attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
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U.S. makes effort to give Iraqis freedom from Saddam Husseins' dictatorship and from use of weapons of mass destruction or making them available to terrorists.
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U.S. President Barack Obama ordered 17,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
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