Modern America Chapter 16

President Clinton was impeached on what charges?

• perjury and obstruction of justice

• treason and bribery

• lying and abuse of power

• treason and perjury

Why did the Bush administration respond to the events of September 11th 2001 by invading Afghanistan?

• Osama bin Laden, who organized the September 11th attacks, was based in Afghanistan

• The Taliban, Afghanistan's extremist Islamic government, had threatened to attack.

• Afghanistan, a U.S. security threat, was concealing weapons of mass destruction.

• Al Qaeda, a fundamentalist Islamic army, was leading a rebellion against the Taliban.

What event sparked the Persian Gulf War in 1990?

• Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait.

• The UN sent investigators into Iraq to search for biological weapons.

• Kuwait permitted U.S. forces to land aircraft on its Iraqi border.

• Iran attacked UN troops stationed in Kuwait to protect Saddam Hussein

What did a French newspaper mean by the headline "We are all Americans" after September 11th 2001?

• Americans could come to France to escape terrorism.

• The French sympathized with the United States.

• Terrorist attacks had spread to France.

• French citizens suffered from religious discrimination.

Who was the leader of Iraq during the Person Gulf War?

• Mikhail Gorbachev

• Lech Walesa

• Boris Yeltsin

• Saddam Hussein

The United States and its allies launched the missile and bombing phase of the Persian Gulf War on January 16th 1991 called?

• Operation Desert Shield

• Operation Desert Storm

• The Line in the Sand

• Operation Liberty

Who first developed the technology for what is now the Internet?

• a team led by Bill Gates at Microsoft

• Entrepreneurs in the entertainment industry

• tech workers in Silicon Valley, California

• Scientists at the U.S. Department of Defense

What event was the first act of Islamic terrorism in the United States?

• Hijackers crash planes into the Twin Towers

• Bombings of the U.S. embassies

• The Oklahoma federal building bombin

• Bomb at the World Trade Center kills 6

In what countries were U.S. embassies bombed in 1998?

• Scotland & Ireland

• Lebanon & Syria

• Kenya & Tanzania

• Saudi Arabia & Kenya

What was the main criticism of the war in Iraq?

• Saddam Hussein was not a dictator

• Al Qaeda was present only in Afghanistan

• Foreign armies could have been more forceful

• No weapons of mass destruction were discovered