U.S Involvement in Iraq

Create a storyboard for the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Using the facts from below create a drawing for each fact. Include the fact with your drawing.

*2001-2003- Following the 9/11 attacks, U.S. suspicion of Iraq increases.

*2002- Bush administration agrees that Iraq has weapons of mass destruction, despite United Nations inspections which found no sign of weapons of mass destruction.

*2002-2003-World powers push for further investigation.

*March 20, 2003- American and British troops invade Iraq.

*December 2003- Saddam Hussein is captured and no weapons of mass destruction are discovered.

*2004- 9/11 Commission concluded that there was no “collaborative relationship” between Iraq and al-Qaeda (terrorist group responsible for 9/11 attacks).

*2004-2011- The U.S. forces train the Iraqi Army

*January 30, 2005-Iraq holds its first free elections in 50 years

*April 7, 2005- Jalal Talabani becomes President of Iraq.

*February 2009 - President Obama announced that all remaining U.S. troops and trainers would leave Iraq by the end of the 2011.

*December 31, 2011- All U.S. troops withdraw from Iraq.

*June 2014- Today- US troops invited by Iraqi government to help against ISIS