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The First Gulf War
The association between Kuwait and the Turkish empire's province of Basra led a number of Iraqi's to believe that it was rightfully part of Iraq.Therefore Saddam used this an one excuse in order to invade Kuwait after the Iran-Iraq war.Despite his attempt to represent the Iran-Iraq war as a victory, people began to see through this propaganda to understand that they were in severe debt -
World Trade Center Bombing
The 1993 world trade center bombing was a terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, carried out of February 26 when a truck detonated below the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York. The bomb was intended to send the North Tower crashing into the South Tower. -
Oklahoma City Bombing
The Oklahoma City bombing occurred when a truck packed with explosives was detonated on April 19, 1995, outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, leaving 168 people dead and hundreds more injured. The blast was set off by anti-government militant Timothy McVeigh, who in 2001 was executed for his crimes. His co-conspirator Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison. Until September 11, 2001, the Oklahoma City. -
United States involvement in Serbia
The united states As the civil war within Kosovo escalated, the US and W. Europe became involved. A contact group on Kosovo was created that included representatives from Germany, France, Russia, the UK, and the US. There was a fear of a refugee crisis as thousands of refugees fleeing Kosovo and the war to Macedonia and Albania would destabilize the governments as well as spread the war. -
The attack on the USS Cole
The USS Cole bombing was a terrorist attack against the United States Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Cole on 12 October 2000, while it was being refueled in Yemen's Aden harbor. Seventeen American sailors were killed and 39 injured in the deadliest attack against a United States naval vessel since 1987. -
9/11
On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. -
United States invasion of Afghanistan
The United States invasion of Afghanistan occurred after the September 11 attacks in late 2001, supported by close allies. The conflict is also known as the U.S. war in Afghanistan. Its public aims were to dismantle al-Qaeda, and to deny it a safe base of operations in Afghanistan by removing the Taliban from power.The United Kingdom was a key ally of the United States, offering support for military action from the start of preparations for the invasion. -
Invasion of Iraq
The 2003 invasion of Iraq lasted from 20 March to 1 May 2003 and signaled the start of the Iraq War, which the United States dubbed Operation Iraqi Freedom (prior to 19 March, the mission in Iraq was called "Operation Enduring Freedom", a carry-over from the War in Afghanistan. -
Obama was elected president
On November 4, 2008, Senator Barack Obama of Illinois was elected president of the United States over Senator John McCain of Arizona. Obama became the 44th president, and the first African American to be elected to that office. He was subsequently elected to a second term over former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney. -
Syrian Civil War
The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing multi-sided armed conflict in Syria fought primarily between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by President Bashar al-Assad, along with its allies, and various forces opposing both the government and each other in varying combinations.
