Today we continued our discussions.
9/11
- 9/11 happened 8 months into Bush's first term
- north tower was the first one hit
- total of 19 hijakers
- Target area was the north eastern area
- in between 17 minutes both the towers were hit
- people thought the the hit on the first tower was an accident
Al-Queada
- Al-Queada is the largest terrorist orginazation in the world
- First came around during the cold war- early 1980s
- Soviet Union left and Al-Queada couldn't decide what type of government to have
- Al-Quaeda trained the Taliban
- Leader Osama Bin Laden killed in 2011
- U.S. helped them early on to try to stop communist
- Mushahaden is the name of the gov. we were helping
Outcome from 9/11
- Lots of economic damage $$$
- many buildings damaged
- many changes
- Patriot Act passed to make FBI able to to check into people if they are a suspected terrorists
- lot more stricter on airports and ball games and other things like that
- affetced the mindset of many Americans
- lead to war to Afghanistan and water boarding
Osama Bin Ladan
- born from his dad's 10th wife
- originally born in Saudi Arabia
- has around 70 siblings
- Very wealthy- millionare
- went to Africa after he was kicked out of Saudi Arabia
- His parents disowned him after 9/11
- died when he was shot by Seal Team 6
- shot 3 times
- Public enemy #1 for over a decade
Afghanistan
Why did we go to war with them?
- basically because of 9/11
- President bush said, "If you aren't with us you are against us."
- We are also over there to help their Gov. and military
- We can't leave to early or the Taliban might come back
What did we do ever there?
- Helped education
- Helped women
- Heped economy
- Hlped build infistructure
- Helped make a democracy style of gov.
- Helped with health care systems
Iraq
Persian Gulf War
- Operation Desert Shield
- Operation Desert Storm
- first started because of oil disputes
- dispute between Kwait and Iraq
- Iraq felt that they were being stolen from by kuwait
- happened in 1990's
Saddam Hussein Backround
- sent to live with uncle at the age of 3
- fled Egypt because of assasination atempt
- had gov. power from 1979 to 2003
- died in 2003
- helped economy by providing jobs
- had two staged elections were he won by close to and at 100%
- Saddam Hussein tricked people into thinking that they had weapons of mass destruction
Major Events
- Our effort to capture Saddam Hussein crippled their gov.
- we realized that we were wrong about the nuclear weapons
- first invaded in March 19, 2003
- sectarian violence- is violence between different religous groups
- sectarian violence between the Sunni and Shia (different types of Muslim groups)
- 2007 when mostly all Americans wanted out president Bush ordered the Surge
- 4,400 U.S. deaths in Iraq and it cost $800 billion
- few causilties for how long the war was
- Surge- many toops sent over to stop the sectarian violence
How the U.S. helped Iraq
- helped their gov.
- helped create stability
- help their military
- helped make a democracy
- helped rebuild economic system
- helped their infestrucre
Difference between Obama and Bush
- Obama for air attack, which saved more lives
- Bush's way more affected
- President Obama never was 'for' this war
- People had bad view of Pres. Bush because this is when the economy went south and this is when the war happened
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