Q 01/05

What nickname was given to the massive air assault that opened the 2003 invasion of Iraq?

A) Shock and awe

B) Rolling Thunder

C) Instant Thunder

D) Linebacker

Answer · why

A) Shock and awe

Shock and awe was a strategy devised at the US National Defense University to break an enemy's will to fight, not just destroy its forces.

Q 02/05

What was the US code name for the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam?

A) Operation Desert Storm

B) Operation Iraqi Freedom

C) Operation Desert Shield

D) Operation Southern Watch

Answer · why

B) Operation Iraqi Freedom

Operation Iraqi Freedom took Baghdad in about three weeks, yet US troops then stayed in Iraq for more than eight years.

Q 03/05

Which US general led the 2003 invasion as commander of Central Command?

A) Tommy Franks

B) Ricardo Sanchez

C) Norman Schwarzkopf

D) George Casey

Answer · why

A) Tommy Franks

Tommy Franks had already commanded the 2001 invasion of Afghanistan that drove the Taliban from power.

Q 04/05

Which 1998 US law made removing Saddam Hussein's regime official American policy?

A) Iraq Sanctions Act

B) Iraq War Resolution

C) Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Act

D) Iraq Liberation Act

Answer · why

D) Iraq Liberation Act

The Iraq Liberation Act was signed by Bill Clinton, so regime change in Iraq was US policy years before George W. Bush's invasion.

Q 05/05

In his 2002 State of the Union, Bush grouped Iraq with which two other countries in an 'Axis of Evil'?

A) Iran and North Korea

B) Syria and Libya

C) Cuba and Sudan

D) Afghanistan and Iran

Answer · why

A) Iran and North Korea

Iran and North Korea were accused alongside Iraq in Bush's January 2002 speech of seeking weapons of mass destruction.