Water Gate Scandel
The Watergate scandelwas a burglary that happened on JUne 17, 1972. President Nixons men got caught breaking inot the Demoratic National Commintee. They were Virgilo Gonzalez, Bernard Barker, James W. McCord Jr., Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis. They were first only arrested with breaking and entering. But then were tried in court and were charge with attempted burglary and attempted interception of telephone and other communicatios. E. Howrad Hunt, Jr. and G. Gordon Liddy were also charged with conspiracy and violation of Federal wiretapping. They tried to get Nixon back into office by breaking in but there plan backfired. Nixon had a recording system in his office which lead to his resignation. One tape consisted of the scandel and how they were going to cover it up.
Persian Gulf War
The Persian Gulf War, also know by many americans as operation Desert Storm. On August 2, 1990 iraq invaded Kuwait and bombed Kuwait City. Even though there was all of this tension and Iraq even said it may use military action, Kuwait didn't have its forces on alert and was overrun in days or fighting. Iraq burned Kuwaits oil fields and resources. I guess Kuwait just called Iraq's bluff about using military and they paid for it. After this victory Saddam made his cousin, Ali Hassan Al-Majid, the govenor or Kuwait. Operation Desert shield started on August 7, 1990 in which the United States landed in Saudi Arabia to defend them if Iraq tried to invade. US soldiers built up and totaled 543,00 troops. All of the US forces in Saudi Arabia stopped Iraq because they couldnt fight a war against the United States. The United Nations passed a order that Iraq had until January 15 1991 to withdrawl all of their forces before force would be used. I think that what the US did was a valuable lesson learned from WW2 by not letting dictators invade and take what they want. We stopped Saddam before he gained more power by taking over Saudi Arabia's oil fields.
9/11
9/11 and the War on Terror. Well most everybody knows about 9/11, if you dont youve probly been living under a rock. 2976 civilians were killed when 19 hijackers took 4 airliners and crashed them into specific targets that had been specified by al-Quaeda terrorists. At 8:46 AM the first airliner crashed into the world trade centers and the second world trade center was hit by the other airliner at 9:03 AM. A third plane crashed into the pentagon at 9:37 AM, the fourth flight which was origianally though to be headed for the White House was actually headed to the US capitol building. The fourth plane that was hijacked crashed near shanksville Pennselvania at 10:03 AM after passengers tried to get control of the plane from hijackers. These attacks are the main cause of the United States invasion of Afghanistan. The war on terror was started by George W. Bush as a response to the 9/11 attack on the United States. The war on terror is supported by the allies of the United States. Although "the war on terror" isnt used anymore. I like the sound of it better that "Overseas Contingency Operation" that president obama uses. In my opinion it seems like Obama wants to cloud the fact that what were fighting is terrorism, and that we are at war because we have troops stationed over there. Its not so much a war as a United States occupation. On October 7, 2001 the United States started military operations in Afghanistan.
Iraq
The ivasion of Iraq. One of the huge reasons why we invaded Iraq was the threat of nuclear weapons. we could not let terrorist get them and cause more terrorist activities. The plans for this invasion were somewhat controversial as i heard on the today show a long time ago the operation was called operation iraqui freedom, which also happens to spell oil which there is much of in that region. The 2003 invasion of Iraq started march 20. 4 countries invaded with troops but now 36 countries are involved in the invasion of Iraq. On february 18 there were 100,000 troops in kuwait waiting for the order to invade. on March 19, 2003 there was a airstrike on the Iraqui presidential palace
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