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Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi
Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, commonly referred to as “the Shah,” governed Iran from 1953 through 1979 as a secular and authoritarian rule. The Shah rose to power after his father was forced to step down, and the Shah's relationship with the U.S. flourished over time. Opposition to the Shah himself was based upon his autocratic rule, corruption in government, the unequal distribution of oil wealth, forced Westernization, and the activities of SAVAK in suppressing dissent and opposition to his rule -
Iran revolution
In August 1978, the deaths of 400 people in the Cinema Rex fire claimed by the opposition as having been orchestrated by Pahlavi's Savak served as a catalyst for a popular revolutionary movement across Iran, large scale strikes and demonstrations paralyzed the country. The causes of the Iran revolution vary from a conservative backlash opposing the westernization and secularization efforts of the Western backed Shah, as well as from a more popular reaction to social injustice -
End of Iran revolution
The revolution led to the replacement of the Imperial State of Iran by the present day Islamic Republic of Iran, as the monarchical government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was superseded by the theocratic Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, a religious cleric who had headed one of the rebel factions The revolution of 1979 had also ended the westernization and modernization of Iran, and set up a traditional government and society based upon the Koran -
The first gulf war(Iran/Iraq)
The Iran Iraq War, also known as the First Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Iraq that lasted from September 1980 to August 1988. The War began in with the Iraqi invasion of Iran. Under the rule of Saddam Hussein and the Ba'ath Party, Iraq invaded Iran, which was ruled by Ayatollah Khomeini. Iraq wanted to annex the oil-rich region of Khuzestan and gain full control of the Shatt al-Arab waterway. -
Bin Laden forms Al Qaeda
Al Qaeda was formed at a meeting between several senior leaders of Egyptian Islamic Jihad , Abdullah Azzam, and Bin Laden. It was agreed to join Bin Laden's money with the expertise of the Islamic Jihad organization and take up the jihadist cause elsewhere. Al Qaeda began raising money, setting up training camps, and providing military and intelligence instruction in such areas as Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Sudan. During this time, bin Laden was becoming increasingly hostile to the United States -
Black hawk shootings
In 1993, 18 Americans died in black hawk helicopter shootings. Turns out the weapons used to shoot the choppers down came from Osama Bin Laden. Bin Laden had also taught the soldiers how to shoot down helicopters. -
First attack on Twin Towers and Osama declares war with United States
First attack on twin towers was in 1998 Osama Bin laden declared war on the United states
a van loaded with approximately 1,200 pounds of explosives was driven into the public parking garage beneath the World Trade Center. The detonator was to set it off and flee the country. Six people were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in what was at that time the deadliest act of terrorism perpetrated on U.S. soil. -
Embassy Bombings
On August 7, 1998, at 10:30 am, truck bombs exploded at U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing more than 200 people and wounding more than 4,000. The attacks were later linked to the terrorist group Al Qaeda. Embassies are classified as the countries soil. -
Millennium attacks foiled
Millennium attacks foiled, Jordanian police halted 4 suicide bombings. A series of Islamist terrorist attacks linked to al-Qaeda were planned to occur on or near January 1, 2000, in the context of millennium celebrations, including bombing plots against four tourist sites in Jordan, the Los Angeles International Airport , USS The Sullivans, and the hijacking of Indian Airlines Flight
4 Al Qaeda terrorists were arrested crossing Canadian borders -
Navy Ship Bombed in Yemen
The USS Cole bombing was a suicide attack by al-Qaeda against USS Cole, a guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, on 12 October 2000, while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor. The resulting blast killed 17 Sailors, wounded 37 others, and tore a hold forty by sixty feet in the ship's hull. -
9/11 Twin Towers Attacked
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. On that Tuesday morning, 19 terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners scheduled to travel from the East Coast to California. The world trade center, pentagon and field in Pennsylvania were hit by the hijacked planes.
19 Hijackers.
2819 were killed
343 EMS and firefighters were killed -
Afghanistan War
In 2001 an international coalition led by the USA invaded Afghanistan to destroy terrorist organization Al-Qaeda when the Taliban refused to hand over Osama bin Laden. British forces went in alongside US troops. At the height of the conflict there were more than 130,000 NATO troops on the ground. American military casualties included some 2,400 service members killed and some 20,700 others wounded -
War on terror begins
The Global War on Terrorism kicked off after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. The initial invasion of Afghanistan began October 7, 2001, and was dedicated to pushing back the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorist organizations. In March 2003, the air and ground invasion of Iraq commenced. The President announced that the United States had begun military action in Afghanistan. The initial strikes were against al-Qaeda terrorist training camps and Taliban military installations. -
Bin Laden starts Hiding the hunt begins
In December 2001 bin Laden went into hiding after evading capture by U.S. forces in the Tora Bora cave complex. In the following years, U.S. forces searched for him along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, during which time bin Laden remained absent from the public eye -
Iraq war march
On 15 February 2003, a coordinated day of protests was held across the world in which people in more than 600 cities expressed opposition to the imminent Iraq War. It was part of a series of protests and political events that had begun in 2002 and continued as the invasion, war, and occupation took place. The day was described by social movement researchers as "the largest protest event in human history" -
War in Iraq
The Iraq War, also referred to as the Second Gulf War, was a prolonged conflict in Iraq lasting from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion by a United States-led coalition, which resulted in the overthrow of the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. Paired with Iraq's reticence to allow weapons inspectors onto key sites, Iraq appeared to be a major threat to national security, and the United States considered Saddam Hussein to be a terrorist. -
Iraq and Al Qaeda commission
The Iraq and Al Qaeda commission concluded that to date [2004] they have seen no evidence that these or the earlier contacts ever developed into a collaborative operational relationship, however, and did not find proof indicating that Iraq cooperated with Al-Qaeda in developing or carrying out any attacks against the United States. -
Terrorist attack in London
The 7 July 2005 London bombings, also referred to as 7/7, were a series of four co-ordinated suicide attacks carried out by Islamist terrorists that targeted commuters travelling on London's public transport during the morning rush hour. 56 Died with
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Osama Bin Laden Found in Pakistan
U.S. intelligence agencies developed information that Osama bin Laden was likely living in a compound in northern Pakistan. American intelligence officials discovered the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden by tracking one of his couriers. Information was collected from Guantánamo Bay detainees, who gave intelligence officers the courier's pseudonym as Abu Ahmed al-Kuwaiti, and said that he was a protégé of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed. -
Osama Bin Laden is killed
On May 2, 2011, Osama bin Laden, the founder and first leader of the Islamist militant group al-Qaeda, was shot and killed at his compound in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad by United States Navy SEALs of SEAL Team Six. This was called Operation Neptune spear.