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WorksheetsAfghanistan & Iraq Wars
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 30mins
What year did the 9/11 attacks happen in?
1996
1999
2001
2011
Who won the presidential election of 2000?
Bill Clinton
Al Gore
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
What state did the election of 2000 come down to and had multiple recounts before the Supreme Court ruling?
Pennsylvania
Florida
Virginia
California
Where did the first two flights crash?
Pentagon
Twin Towers (WTC)
A field in Pennsylvania
White House
What is the major religion in Afghanistan?
Islam
Christianity
Buddhism
Judaism
What group threatens the safety of Afghanistan still today and first came to power there in 1996?
Mujahideen
Soviet Union
jihad
Taliban
What group did the Taliban provide a safe haven for?
Muammar Gaddafi
Saddam Hussein
al-Qaeda
ISIS
Who was the leader of al-Qaeda?
Osama bin Laden
Muammar Mubarak
Saddam Hussein
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Who was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks?
Muammar Gaddafi
Saddam Hussein
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Muammar Gaddafi
What U.S. naval base is in Cuba where there is a detention camp where suspected terrorists are held without trial indefinitely?
Ft. Wood
Guanacaste
Guantanamo Bay
Ft. Kennedy
The controversial anti-terrorism law passed after 9/11 was __________.
The Patriot Act
The American Safe Act
The Prohibition Act
The Terrorism and Security Act
Osama bin Laden was born to a wealthy family in ______.
Afghanistan
Iraq
Syria
Saudi Arabia
The Taliban enforced a strict form of _______ law when they ruled Afghanistan. Examples of this were their harsh treatment of women and the public executions that they held.
Shukran
Aäfwan
Sharia
Ismuk
Who was President Bush's Vice President who influenced many of the decisions that he made in during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars?
Dick Cheney
Donald Rumsefeld
Al Gore
Mike Pence
What Pennsylvania politician became the first person in charge of the Department of Homeland Security?
Frank Baker
George Peterson
Bill Corbett
Tom Ridge
What agency is now in charge of airport security in the United States?
Airport Security America (ASA)
Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
Security Airports of America (SAA)
Transportation Administrative Security (TAS)
The president and his advisers alleged that Iraq _____ and was a threat to the United States.
had U.S. prisoners of war
had Weapons of Mass Destruction
was killing its own citizens
was planning to invade neighboring countries again
Who was the President of Iraq during this time?
Osama bin Laden
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr
Saddam Hussein
The original aerial bombing campaign of Baghdad, Iraq was called:
Shock & Awe
Red Dawn
Rolling Thunder
Overlord
The primary goal of the Iraq War was to ______.
track down Osama bin Laden
take down Saddam Hussein's regime
retaliation of 9/11
destroy the Taliban
Saddam Hussein eventually ___________.
took back control of Iraq
escape to a neighboring country that protected him
was caught, put on trial, and executed
helped form the terrorist group known as ISIS
Which of these was NOT a criticism of the Iraq War?
WMDs were never found, which was a key argument of the Bush Administration.
Invading Iraq could inspire more terrorism against the U.S., not less.
Toppling a dictator is not a good enough reason to go to war.
Saddam didn't do anything wrong as a leader.
TRUE/FALSE: During the Iraq War, the country also brought out into civil war.
True
False
In 2007, a private military company called _____ got involved in firefight in the middle of busy Baghdad square killing 17 people (including a child) and injuring at least 20, infuriating many in Iraq, the U.S., and beyond.
American Defense Services (ADS)
Blackwater
Firestarter
Whitewoods
Which war did the American public turn opinion against faster and more deeply?
Afghanistan War
Iraq War
