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The Iranian Revolution was the uprising of the people against the monarch, or Shah, and it's replacement with an Islamic State, in which Ayatollah Khomeini became the leader.
The Shah
Iranian revolutionaries
Ayatollah Khomeini
During the Carter administration, Iranian revolutionaries took over the American Embassy and held all the people there hostage. Lasted 444 days, from 1979 to 1981, when after a series of negotiations, the hostages were finally released.
The hostages were treated poorly and often tortured...
Iran and Iraq have been disputing the Shat-Arab water way for a long time. After the Iranian Revolution, since the country was in chaos, Saddam Hussein (the leader of Iraq) decided it would be a great time to attack Iran and size a big chunk of the waterway. The leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khomeini, responded with a counter-attack which pushed the Iraqis back to their border. Saddam was now wanting peace but he Iranians kept coming, and so he launched a counter attack of his own and so the two countries reached a stalemate. They dug trenches and during the rest of the war no country was definitively winning. Eventually, after 8 years of fighting, both countries finally signed a peace treaty and the war ended with no winner.
<<< The war was similar to WWI as both countries dug trenches...
Ayatollah, next to Iraqi forces >>>
From 1982 to 1990 the Lebanese civil war takes place and American + French forces went in to try and calm everything down.
In April 1983 the U.S. Embassy was bombed. This was the first major terrorist bombing on a U.S. target, until 9/11.
Only a few months later, October 1983, the marine barracks were also bombed by suicide bombers and 307 people were killed. The U.S. Decided to pull out of Lebanon.
The bombings came as a shock the American public: the bombing of the embassy was the biggest terrorist attack on a US target up to that time
On April 14, 1986, the U.S. launched air strikes against Libya in retaliation for the Libyan sponsorship of terrorist attacks against American troops and citizens.
After the terrorist attacks on the US embassy and Marine barracks, the Americans opposed all countries that supported terrorism. Libya was one of these countries...
Libyan-supported terrorists
American planes bombing Libya
Overview: The Persian Gulf War was a coalition led by the United States against Iraq, to try and liberate Kuwait.
Iran-Iraq war had just ended. After 8 long years of fighting and only loss of lives and no wins, both countries are upset. But Iraq had bigger problems than Iran... During the war they burrowed HUGE amounts of money from Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Iran was a mess. Now that the war ended, Saddam didn't want to pay those debts. On August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded and successfully took over Kuwait. He then moved all of his troops on the Saudi-Kuwait border. This worried the Americans, as Saudi Arabia was their main source of oil. A coalition force formed to stop Saddam from taking over Saudi Arabia.
The liberation of Kuwait was a two step process.
Desert Shield was the gathering and building up of the army in Saudi Arabia before attacking Saddam. This also prevented Saddam from attacking Saudi Arabia.
After operation Desert Shield was complete, operation Desert Storm was next.
Desert Storm was the actual attack on Iraqi forces and the liberation of Kuwait.
The Americans first "carpet bombed" strategic locations before going in with the infantry. The coalition forces found the fighting relatively easy as many of the Iraqi solders were forced to fight by Saddam and they just surrendered to the coalition forces. After only 1 year, Kuwait was liberated and Saddam retreated back into Iraq.
^^^Iraqi forces invading Kuwait
^^^The US HEAVILY bombed the Iraqis
<<<Infamous Saddam Hussein
After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center (September 11, 2001) the US takes over Afghanistan looking for Taliban terrorists. Afghanistan has almost no roads and so the US wanted to build a road connecting all major cities in Afghanistan so it could rebuild the country. However constant Taliban attacks and suicide bombings on construction crews made US forces withdraw from Afghanistan, leaving the Taliban take control over the country once again.
They think the ring road will unite the country.
US take over Afghanistan.
They give up and leave after intense terrorist attacks
Isis terrorists...
Similar to what happened in Afghanistan, US forces take over Iraq because of the conflicts there. There was constant fighting between the Shias and the Sunnis and terrorist groups (like ISIS) keep emerging. Eventually the US again pulls out of the country, and this time it also gives A LOT of money to the Iraqi government to try and stop the terrorists, but most of the money was lost due to corruption inside the government, and no big effort was made to stop the terrorists...
This is what they do.
Americans are not happy with them.