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In the Middle East people are called

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Nomads - Bedouins

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What does philistines and Phoenicians speak ?

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Arabic

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What does Hebrews speak ?

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Hebrew

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Diaspora

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Spreading out

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5
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How long does WWI last ?

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From 1914-1918

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Who carved up the Middle East ?

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British and French colonies

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What are the other two names for Great Britain?

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British and the United Kingdom

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What is the main land ?

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Palestine

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Who takes the main land

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British

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10
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Who set up a new country called Iraq ?

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Great Britain

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What three ethnic groups did Great Britain put in Iraq

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Shia, Sunnis, and Kurds

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Why is it bad that Great Britain put Shia, Sunni, and the Kurds together in one country ?

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Because they all hate each other

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13
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Who has deep water ports ?

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Kuwait

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Why did British take the state Kuwait

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So they could strip the oil out of Kuwait and transport it to Britain

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What does Bp stand for ?

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British Petroleum

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Why did Britain create Iraq with these 3 groups that hate each other ?

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British wanted Iraq to be dysfunctional so they could take the oil from Kuwait and transport it to Great Britain. They more so wanted the 3 ethnic groups to not be in their right state of mind

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17
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How long does WWII last ?

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1939-1945

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18
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How many people were killed in the holocaust ?

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12 million people

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19
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How many Jews die ?

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6 million

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20
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Who was Hitlers main target ?

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Jewish

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21
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Who creates a country called Israel (Palestine) for the Jews in 1948 ?

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Britain and the United States

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22
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Who attacks the New Jewish Israel ?

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Palestinian Arabs

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23
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Who helped the Jewish win against the Palestinian Arabs ?

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United States

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Zionism

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When Jewish people have their own country

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25
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What is isreals spy group called ?

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Mossad

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What is a Mossad ?

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Better version of CIA (central intelligence Agency)

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Who does Mossad spy on ?

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Their neighbors

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28
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Who has the best spy group ?

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Isreal

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29
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Who found out certain countries were against isreal

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Mossad

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30
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Which countries where against isreal ?

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Egypt, Syria, and Iraq

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31
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What does isreal decide to do before the countries Egypt, Syria, and Iraq attack them ?

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Isreal pre-Emptive strike Egypt, Syria, and Iraq

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32
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What year did isreal strike Egypt, Syria and Iraq ? How many days was it ?

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  1. It was a 6 day war
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33
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What is the three reasons isreal won ?

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U.S. Weapons, Mossad, and surprising them

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34
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What 3 places does isreal Occopies ?

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Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and West Bank

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35
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Why does isreal give back Golan heights ?

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To make the place “neutral”

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36
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How long has isreal Occupied the Gaza Strip and West Bank ?

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1967- today

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37
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What city is in West Bank ?

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Jerusalem

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38
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Who controls the dome of the rock ?

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Israelites

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39
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Who pays for the occupation of Israel ?

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U.S. Tax payers

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40
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What is censorship?

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Filtering

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41
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What are the guidelines for censorship in isreal ?

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  • take no videos
  • submit to a censor (person)
  • censor can tell you to delete it or keep it
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42
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Slow transfer

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Pushing Palestinian groups out of the country

43
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Who controls the Islamic Palestinian Arabs ? Where ?

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Jewish Israelites soldiers. In the Gaza Strip and the West Bank

44
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Yasser Arafat

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Leader of PLO

45
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What are the 4 things that happens to to the Islamic Palestinian Arabs ?

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A. Economic Strangulation
B. Jewish Settlements
C. Destroying Palestinians
D. No support system

46
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Economic Strangulation

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Cutt off ability to feed themselves and jobs. 700,000 refugees. Close check points so they can go to work.

47
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Jewish Settlements

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Housings, if they don’t have the paper work to claim the land. They can’t have their land back that they had.

48
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Destroying Palestinians property

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Isreal bulldozed Palestinian Arabs home

49
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Support system

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Jewish Israelite soldiers do not support sanitation or health care

50
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Infatia

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Uprisings in occupied territory

51
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How many Jews moved to Palestinian

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14,000

52
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When was the Gulf War ?

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1990

53
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Who invades Kuwait ? Who did they take it from ?

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Iraq (Saddam Hussain). The British

54
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What is the guys name that leads Iraqs PLO?

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Saddam Hussain

55
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What did Saddam Hussain start out as ?

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An assassin

56
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Assassin

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Kills people for a living

57
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Saddam Hussain eliminates

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His physical apponents

58
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Saddam Hussain rules Iraq by being

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Controlling

59
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Where does half of the worlds oil go through ?

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Persian Gulf

60
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What number president was was George Herbert Walker Bush ?

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41st president

61
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Who started something called the coalition?

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George H Bush

62
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What was the coalition?

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George H Bush got U.S. And 25 other countries to commit not to send troops to Kuwait

63
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Coalition

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A group

64
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Who is Norman Swartzkuptf ?

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A general

65
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Norman Schwarzkopf has an idea that we should use a

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Desert shield

66
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What are they shielding ?

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The Persian Gulf

67
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What is Schwarzkopf IQ ?

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170

68
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The Persian Gulf is pumping oil through where ?

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Saudi Arabia

69
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Who shields Saudi Arabia and Parisian Gulf so we can take the oil from Kuwait ?

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United States

70
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Who has troops in turkey ?

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United States

71
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What did general Schwarzkopf use to defeat Iraq ?

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Something called Blitzkreiy

72
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Define blitz kreiy

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A combination of air, tank, and infantry

73
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What kind of bombs does U.S. use to defeat Iraq

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F-15 and B-52’s

74
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What does the F-15’s use ?

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A smart bomb

75
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What is a smart bomb

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A smart bomb is a computer chip in the bomb (kind of like a gps) to make sure it the bomb hits where it’s supposed to

76
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Name 2 other smart bombs

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Tuma hawk missile and Patriot missile

77
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What kind of missile did we use that’s 4 letters ?

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I-Inter 
C-continental 
B-ballistic 
M-missile 
The ICBM
78
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How many days did it take U.S. To launch the air attack ?

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41 days

79
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What is the name of the best tank U.S. Ever made ?

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Abrahams Tank

80
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How many feet in the air does the ICBM missile go ?

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50,000 feet in the air

81
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What is the name or the killing package?

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Apache helicopters

82
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What flys on top of Abrahams tank ?

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Apache helicopters

83
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How many U.S. Troops fought to defeat Iraq ?

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400,000 troops

84
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How many coalition troops fought to defeat Iraq ?

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100,000 troops

85
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How many countries participated in to defeat Iraq and take the oil ?

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25-28 countries

86
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What was the main goal out of all of the cautious going on around Iraq ?

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The goal was to liberate Kuwait

87
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How many hours did it take to liberate Kuwait ?

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100 hours

88
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Liberate

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Release from a state or situation

89
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Who decided that they didn’t want urban war ?

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United States.

90
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Where did United States stop after they said they didn’t want urban war ?

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Baghdad

91
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How long is Saddam Hussain in power ?

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1991-current

92
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What is a martyr ?

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Someone who does something for a good cause

93
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What does Martyrs become?

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Suicide bombers

94
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Who are martyrs dying for ?

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Jihad

95
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What are the Martyrs sacrificing their living for ?

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Their religion

96
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Who is telling the people to martyr themselves?

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Clerk

97
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Why are the people proud that their family is giving up their life ?

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Your supposed to be proud that your family is giving up their life for their religion

98
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What does the suicide bombers believe?

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72 virgins are waiting on them in heaven if they blow themselves up

99
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Highway to hell

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Blow anything up

100
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What 3 free things does Kuwait have ?

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Free medical, free education, and free phone service

101
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What does most people in Kuwait DO NOT do ?

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Work

102
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How much oil did Saddam Hussain steal ?

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  1. Billion worth of oil
103
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What will happen if U.S. invade Kuwait?

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We will get into deeper arguments with Kuwait

104
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Vital interest

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Code word for oil

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