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- 2. There are two people that run this type of economy
- 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.
- 9. a 1991 conflict in which a U.S.-led international coalition expelled Iraq from Kuwait after Iraq's invasion in 1990.
- 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.
- 12. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
- 13. a diverse ethno-linguistic group primarily from the Middle East and North Africa
- 14. one of the most tragic events in US hystory
- 15. a prominent ethnic group inhabiting a mountainous region spanning Turkey, Iran, Iraq, and Syria
- 20. a monotheistic religion whose followers, known as Muslims, believe in one God, Allah, and that Muhammad is His final prophet
- 21. The right that people have in a country
- 22. the larger of the two main branches of Islam
- 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. a form of government with a monarch at the head.
- 3. Weapons of mass destruction
- 4. A parliamentary democracy is a system of government in which citizens elect representatives to a legislative body called a parliament.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 11. five-sided Department of Defense headquarters building in Virginia
- 16. the world's largest religion, based on the teachings of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe is the Son of God and the Messiah
- 17. parliament and legislative body, consisting of 120 members.
- 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
- 19. a system of government by one person with absolute power.