Watergate
The Watergate Scandal took place in the United States in the 1970's. These political scandals lasted from 1972 until 1974. On June 17, 1972, Bernard Barker, Virgilo Gonzales, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis broke into the office of the Democratic Party National Committee located inside of the Watergate Hotel. The men were all arrested the day of the break in. James W. McCord was working for security for Nixon. They found more evidence that this scandal was linked to the White House when the number for E. Howard Hunt was found in Barker's notebook. Later Nixon said that the Watergate Scandal had nothing to do with the White House. On November 7, 1972, Nixon was re-elected into office. Evidence arose within the scandal with proof that President Nixon was trying to cover-up what happened in that office. The Watergate scandal left such an impression on the national and international consciousness that many scandals since then have been labeled with the suffix “gate.”
Persian Gulf War
The first Persian Gulf War also called the Gulf War started because of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The reason Iraq invaded Kuwait was because of oil disagreements. Iraq said that Kuwait owed them billions of dollars for mispumping oil and illegally overproducing their oil. When the invasion began President Bush entered into the war to protect Kuwait and urged other countries to enter their forces to contribute to the war. 32 nations entered in this war against Iraq along with the US. The US sent troops into Kuwait on August 7 to protect their oil fields from the bombing and invading Towel Head Iraqians. On Nov 29, 91 US proposed to Iraq that they must withdraw their troops and stop their invasions and bombing by Jan 15. Then on Jan 18, 1991 there was no such agreement or removal of troops happen from Kuwait thus putting us into another war, Desert Storm. After we pretty much dominated Iraq within a couple of months they stopped firing and the war stopped.
9-11 and the war on terror- invasion of Afghanistan
On September 11, 2001 a series of suicidal attacks planned by al-Qaeda on the US killed nearly three thousand Americans. On September 11th 19 al-Qaeda terrorists hijacked four jet airliners and planned on crashing 2 of the 4 into the Twin Towers. The crash killed everyone on board of the planes and hundreds of others working the Twin buildings and some next to the buildings. Both of the Towers collapsed that day destroying and making damage to most of the buildings in the vicinity of the Towers. The other hijacked planes crashed into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia outside of Washington, DC. The fourth and final hijacked plane also known as Flight 93 was hijacked and planned to crash into the capital. Fortunately the passengers and the crew members on the plane fought against the hijackers and crashed the plane into a field in Shanks Ville Pennsylvania. This made us invade Afghanistan.
Invasion of Iraq (2003)
The invasion of Iraq began on March 20, 2003. It was led mainly by the United States, along with Great Britain, Australia, and Poland. The countries helped with the initial invasion phase which started on March 20 and ended on May 1 of 2003. The alleged reasons for the invasion of Iraq were to take our weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, to end all of Sudan’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people. 63% of the people in the United States wanted to find an alternative way, other than war, of handling the situation with Iraq. Even some of the United State’s closest allies did not agree with what we did. These countries included, France, Germany, and Canada. After the initial invasion 36 countries became involved in the war.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watergate_scandal
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_War
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11_attacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
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