Focusing on Afghanistan

Taliban

a Sunni Islamic fundamentalist political movement and military organization

Northern Alliance

 a coalition of Afghan groups that had been fighting the Taliban for years

Operation Neptune Spear

Search for Bin Laden

weapons of mass destruction (WMD). 

Include nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons that could kill large numbers of people all at once.

“axis of evil”

 made up of Iran, Iraq & North Korea that posed a grave threat.

 Operation Iraqi Freedom

Most of the Iraqi army dissolved as soldiers refused to risk their lives for Hussein.  A few battles took place but the Iraqis were unable to do anything significant

Operation Iraqi Freedom

officially ended and the remaining US troops were reduced and their job was to primarily train Iraqi troops.