The Iran Hostage Crisis

President Carter let the shah enter the United States to be treated for cancer.

• True

• False

Iranian students held hostages for four months.

• True

• False

In 1980, President Carter died.

• True

• False

Americans worried about how the United States was losing control over world events.

• True

• False

Iranians wanted Ayatollah Khomeini to go on trial as a criminal.

• True

• False

In 1979, _____________ overthrew the shah of Iran.

• American troops

• Islamic fundamentalists

• Iraqi troops

• Israeli troops

On Ronald Reagan's Inauguration day, ______________.

• the shah of Iran was overthrown

• Iranian students took over the American embassy in Iran

• the hostages were released

• the rescue mission failed.

Why did the rescue mission fail? (end of paragraph 4)