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  1. 2. There are two people that run this type of economy
  2. 8. was the 41st president of the United States, serving from 1989 to 1993. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as the 43rd vice president under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1989 and previously in various other federal positions.
  3. 9. a 1991 conflict in which a U.S.-led international coalition expelled Iraq from Kuwait after Iraq's invasion in 1990.
  4. 10. is a militant Sunni Islamist organization founded in 1988 by Osama bin Laden and other Arab volunteers who fought against the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
  5. 12. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
  6. 13. a diverse ethno-linguistic group primarily from the Middle East and North Africa
  7. 14. one of the most tragic events in US hystory
  8. 15. a prominent ethnic group inhabiting a mountainous region spanning Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria
  9. 20. a monotheistic religion whose followers, known as Muslims, believe in one God, Allah, and that Muhammad is His final prophet
  10. 21. The right that people have in a country
  11. 22. the larger of the two main branches of Islam
  12. 23. an Afghan Sunni Islamist movement founded in the early 1990s, which ruled Afghanistan from 1996–2001 and again since 2021. Initially comprising religious students and farmers, the Taliban emerged during the post-Soviet civil war and imposed strict religious laws, severely curtailing women's rights
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  1. 1. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
  2. 3. Weapons of mass destruction
  3. 4. A parliamentary democracy is a system of government in which citizens elect representatives to a legislative body called a parliament.
  4. 5. famous for his decades-long authoritarian rule in Iraq, marked by widespread repression, mass killings, and wars, as well as his eventual overthrow by the 2003 US-led invasion, which placed him on the international stage
  5. 6. refers to the second-largest branch of Islam, distinguished by its belief that Ali ibn Abi Talib and his descendants were the rightful spiritual and political successors to the Prophet Muhammad
  6. 7. an ancient, monotheistic religion and the first Abrahamic faith, founded by Abraham and codified by Moses, who received the Ten Commandments and the Torah from God
  7. 8. ordered an invasion of Afghanistan in an effort to overthrow the Taliban, destroy al-Qaeda, and capture Osama bin Laden. He also signed the controversial Patriot Act in order to authorize surveillance of suspected terrorists.
  8. 11. five-sided Department of Defense headquarters building in Virginia
  9. 16. the world's largest religion, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God and the Messiah
  10. 17. parliament and legislative body, consisting of 120 members.
  11. 18. a Saudi-born militant leader who was the founder and first general emir of al-Qaeda. Ideologically a pan-Islamist, Bin Laden participated in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet Union, and supported the Bosnian mujahideen during the Bosnian War
  12. 19. a system of government by one person with absolute power.