Iraq Invasion
Iraq was invaded by US, Poland, Great Britain, and Australia. The invasion began on March 20, 2003 and was ended on May 1st, only twelve days later. The main reasoning for the attack on Iraq was to end all of Suddams support on terrorism and to also free the people of Iraq.
The Watergate Scandal..
The Watergate Scandal last two years. From 1972 to 1974. It took place in the United States. At the beginning of the Watergate Scandal, five men broke in to an office in the Watergate Hotel. It was a Democratic Party National Committee office. All five of the men were arrested on the same day as the break in. Bernard Barker, Virgilo Gonzales, Eugenio Martinez, James W. McCord, and Frank Sturgis were the five men who broke in.
The FBI looked into the break in and found even more evidence. They found that this scandal was linked to the White House when the number for E. Howard Hung was found in Bernard Barker's writing book. Although the FBI had clearly found evidence, on August 19th, president Nixon said that the Watergate Scandal had no connection to the White Hour what-so-ever.
Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf war was only from the year 1990 to 1991. It was started by Iraq when they invaded Kuwait in August of 1990. Iraq says that their reasoning for invading Kuwait was because of oil issues and that Kuwait lost them 14 billion dollars from the overproduction of oil. Although the war only started to be between two coutries, in the end, 32 nations were involved in the war against Iraq's troops and Iraq. The US sent troops to Saudi Arabia for the protection of oil fields during the month of August.
9/11
On the date of September 11, 2001, the United States lost thousands of lives when the World Trade Center collapsed because two planes were crashed into them. The pilot was Al Qaeda. The airplanes were full of innocent passengers that did not have any idea of what was going on. On that same day, four total planes had been hijacked. Only two planes were successful out of the four.
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