| Terrorist attacks of the 1990s | | A bomb went off in the basement of the World Trade Center, only 6 died though hundreds were injured. |
| Nations that were hostile to the US | | A bomb destroyed an American passenger plane flying over Scotland and 270 people were killed. |
| 1988 Attack | | Actions taken to prevent an attack before it happens. |
| 1993 Attack | | He was the president and military dictator of Iraq. |
| World Trade Center | | The US military captured and imprisioned Saddam Hussein and replaced him with a governing council. |
| September 11th, 2001 | | 1,700 |
| al Qaeda | | a huge office, retail and transportation complex in NYC's financial district. |
| Department of Homeland Security | | A fundamentalist Muslim group that ruled Afghanistan |
| Taliban | | A group of Islamic terrorists attack the with highjacked American passenger planes US, specifically the World Trade Center and Pentagon. Thousands died, as did all of the highjackers. |
| Preemptive Strike | | Islamic Nations |
| December 2003 Significance | | Coordinates the domestic national-security efforts of various federal agencies. |
| Saddam Hussein | | The US attacked Afghanistan and ousted the Taliban within a few months. |
| Number of Americans killed in Iraq as of summer 2005 | | Bush was reelected |
| 2004 Election | | The international terrorist network that Osama bin Laden, 9/11 attack leader, was a part of. |
| October 2001 | | Highly successful ambushes, instigated by people who were eager to sacrifice their own lives |