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Afghanistan & Iraq Wars

Total questions: 29

Worksheet time: 30mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What year did the 9/11 attacks happen in?

a)

1996

b)

1999

c)

2001

d)

2011

2.

Who won the presidential election of 2000?

a)

Bill Clinton

b)

Al Gore

c)

George W. Bush

d)

Barack Obama

3.

What state did the election of 2000 come down to and had multiple recounts before the Supreme Court ruling?

a)

Pennsylvania

b)

Florida

c)

Virginia

d)

California

4.
How many airplanes were hijacked on 9/11?
a)
2
b)
4
c)
19
d)
17
5.

Where did the first two flights crash?

a)

Pentagon

b)

Twin Towers (WTC)

c)

A field in Pennsylvania

d)

White House

6.
Where did the third flight crash?
a)
Pentagon
b)
Twin towers
c)
A field in Pennsylvania
d)
The ocean
7.
Where did the fourth flight crash?
a)
Pentagon
b)
Twin towers
c)
A field in Pennsylvania
d)
The ocean
8.
How many hijackers were there in all 4 planes?
a)
17
b)
15
c)
19
d)
71
9.

What is the major religion in Afghanistan?

a)

Islam

b)

Christianity

c)

Buddhism

d)

Judaism

10.

What group threatens the safety of Afghanistan still today and first came to power there in 1996?

a)

Mujahideen

b)

Soviet Union

c)

jihad

d)

Taliban

11.

What group did the Taliban provide a safe haven for?

a)

Muammar Gaddafi

b)

Saddam Hussein

c)

al-Qaeda

d)

ISIS

12.

Who was the leader of al-Qaeda?

a)

Osama bin Laden

b)

Muammar Mubarak

c)

Saddam Hussein

d)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

13.

Who was the mastermind behind the 9/11 attacks?

a)

Muammar Gaddafi

b)

Saddam Hussein

c)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

d)

Muammar Gaddafi

14.

What U.S. naval base is in Cuba where there is a detention camp where suspected terrorists are held without trial indefinitely?

a)

Ft. Wood

b)

Guanacaste

c)

Guantanamo Bay

d)

Ft. Kennedy

15.

The controversial anti-terrorism law passed after 9/11 was __________.

a)

The Patriot Act

b)

The American Safe Act

c)

The Prohibition Act

d)

The Terrorism and Security Act

16.

Osama bin Laden was born to a wealthy family in ______.

a)

Afghanistan

b)

Iraq

c)

Syria

d)

Saudi Arabia

17.

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.

a)

Shukran

b)

Aäfwan

c)

Sharia

d)

Ismuk

18.

Who was President Bush's Vice President who influenced many of the decisions that he made in during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars?

a)

Dick Cheney

b)

Donald Rumsefeld

c)

Al Gore

d)

Mike Pence

19.

What Pennsylvania politician became the first person in charge of the Department of Homeland Security?

a)

Frank Baker

b)

George Peterson

c)

Bill Corbett

d)

Tom Ridge

20.

What agency is now in charge of airport security in the United States?

a)

Airport Security America (ASA)

b)

Transportation Security Administration (TSA)

c)

Security Airports of America (SAA)

d)

Transportation Administrative Security (TAS)

21.

The president and his advisers alleged that Iraq _____ and was a threat to the United States.

a)

had U.S. prisoners of war

b)

had Weapons of Mass Destruction

c)

was killing its own citizens

d)

was planning to invade neighboring countries again

22.

Who was the President of Iraq during this time?

a)

Osama bin Laden

b)

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed

c)

Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr

d)

Saddam Hussein

23.

The original aerial bombing campaign of Baghdad, Iraq was called:

a)

Shock & Awe

b)

Red Dawn

c)

Rolling Thunder

d)

Overlord

24.

The primary goal of the Iraq War was to ______.

a)

track down Osama bin Laden

b)

take down Saddam Hussein's regime

c)

retaliation of 9/11

d)

destroy the Taliban

25.

Saddam Hussein eventually ___________.

a)

took back control of Iraq

b)

escape to a neighboring country that protected him

c)

was caught, put on trial, and executed

d)

helped form the terrorist group known as ISIS

26.

Which of these was NOT a criticism of the Iraq War?

a)

WMDs were never found, which was a key argument of the Bush Administration.

b)

Invading Iraq could inspire more terrorism against the U.S., not less.

c)

Toppling a dictator is not a good enough reason to go to war.

d)

Saddam didn't do anything wrong as a leader.

27.

TRUE/FALSE: During the Iraq War, the country also brought out into civil war.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

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.

a)

American Defense Services (ADS)

b)

Blackwater

c)

Firestarter

d)

Whitewoods

29.

Which war did the American public turn opinion against faster and more deeply?

a)

Afghanistan War

b)

Iraq War