Current Event Project

The last week of school, we are going to look at events during the 1990s and the early 2000s.
This does not cover the events that took place over event that happened between 2010-2021.
Your goal is to go and find two current events that took place during this time. When you find
your 2 articles, complete the following on either a word document, PowerPoint, Onenote, etc.:
 Link to the article
 A brief explanation of the article
 How this article relates to U.S. History
 1 Quote from the article
 1 picture that relates to the event that you researched
 Your opinion and what you may have learned related to the event/articles

When researching, make sure that you are using credible resources. Wikepedia is not a credible
resource. You also cannot use sports or entertainment as a current event.
Due: May 26th
Points: 20 pts.

Extra Credit Opportunity:

For extra credit you can find a political cartoon that is between the years of 2010-2020. If you
choose to do this, you can put it with the current event project. This can be up to 5 extra credit
points. What you need to include:
 The picture of the cartoon you chose
 A brief description on the cartoon
o What does the carton include?
o For whom was this written for?
o Why was it created?

https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/persian-gulf-war
It talks about how sadam Hussein tried to annex Kuwait and make it a part of Iraq due to
increasing oil prices to save his economy.
The US was involved due to the Kuwait asking for help against Iraq since it was a tiny country
with not a good military.
Sadam Hussein claimed Kuwait was an artificial state as the quote says.
I understand why sadam wanted to attack as Kuwait and Saudi Arabia wanted to keep oil prices
low in an effort to pander to western oil buying nations.

https://www.cfr.org/timeline/iraq-war
It talks about how the us invaded Iraq and took down sadam Hussein
It relates because the us invaded Iraq to topple sadam

“Support for Saddam, including within his military organization, will collapse after
the first whiff of gunpowder.” - Richard Perle, then Pentagon Defense Policy Board
chairman.

It was totally stupid to invade Iraq because the us had a theory that Iraq had mass destruction of
weapons it was later proven they didn’t.