Transcript Powerpoint for Tues test: also can be used to complete timeline.

Events
Events of 2011
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Arab Uprising
Drought and famine in East Africa (Somalia, Kenya)
Irene, Tornadoes, Earthquake
Global climate change, in general
Unemployment, Jobs
Japanese melt down
Killing Bin Ladin, et.al.
Afghan/Iraq Wars
Republican Primaries/Tea Party ascendancy
Debt/Debt Ceiling Debate
Southern Sudan gains independence from North.
Technological innovations: (first artificial organ transplant achieved,
Cancer drug for melanoma, flying car, ipad 2,
Crazy shooters: Gabby Gifford, Norway
An event that hasn’t happened yet.
Hosni Mubarak
King Abdullah
Bin Ali
Muammar Gaddaffi
A.A. Saleh
Al Bashir
Al Assad
Egypt
Yeman
Sudan
Saudi Arabia
Libya
Tunisia
Syria
Name that Despot
Name that American Foreign Policy
Person
U.N. Ambassador
CIA director
Sec. of State
Dept of Defense
National Security
Advisor
Hillary Clinton
Tom Donilon
Susan Rice
David Petraeus
Leon Panetta
Changed the modern world
1979
Bathists
The Soviets, worrying about the
“stans”, roll into Afghanistan: the
place “empires go to die.”
Iranian take American Embassy
employees Hostage
Ronald Reagan elected President
Iran/Iraq age old enemies
Iran Iraq War 80s
In Afghanistan we began to supply
the Mujuhadin with stinger missiles
that turned the tide
Iraq Broke, Borders the same
Iraq went to where the money was
Saddam asks the U.S. for
Permission, he says, he thinks, he
gets the go ahead.
Iraq invades Kuwait
But Saudi Arabia is the big prize,
U.S. freaks out
Feb 1991: Desert Storm
Republican Guards surrender
Leave Saddam, Establish no fly
zone to protect Shiites and Kurds.
Meanwhile, in 1988
Taliban take over
Osama moves to Africa
Bin Laden didn’t like American’s in
the “holy land,” Saudi Arabia
(Mecca and Medina)
1993
The “Blind Sheikh”
1998
Kenya Embassy
Tanzania Embassy
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Al Qaeda moves
Back to Afghanistan