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6. What do the UN introduce in 1996?

  • Oil for Food
  • Unlimited oil exports
  • More WMD inspectors

7. How does Saddam attempt to get external support?

  • Starts bombing Western institutions
  • Says he will withdraw when Israel withdraw from the West Bank
  • Appeals to the USSR for arms

8. What percentage of the Iraqi population are Kurdish?

  • 20%
  • 10%
  • 25%

9. Why do the US then lead their forces into Iraq?

  • Saddam had torched Kuwait's oil wells
  • Saddam was limiting oil supplies
  • Saddam used WMD on Western prisoners

10. How much of it's food did Iraq import?

  • 70%
  • 50%
  • 60%

11. What UN resolution immediately demands Iraq withdraw from Kuwait?

  • 642
  • 660
  • 678

12. Why do the Iranian government help the Kurds in Iraq?

  • They want Iran to strengthen under Kurdish control
  • They want to weaken Saddam's rule
  • They want the Kurds to move to Iran

13. Who does Saddam blame for the drop in oil prices in 1990?

  • Kuwait and the UAE
  • Iran
  • Britain

14. When do Britain withdraw from Kuwait?

  • 1960s
  • 1940s
  • 1950s

15. Which of these is a condition of the peace treaty?

  • All of the above
  • UN recovering of WMD
  • Reparations and sanctions
  • No-fly zones

16. What agency investigated the WMD?

  • UNSCOM
  • UNSCOP
  • UNRWA

17. How many countries were in the UN coalition?

  • 34
  • 38
  • 37

18. Who does Bush And encourage to overthrow Saddam?

  • Kurds and Shiites
  • Sunnis and Kurds
  • Shiites and Westerners

19. What is the problem in 1988-1990 with Saddam's army?

  • They are not strong enough
  • They blame him for the defeat in the war
  • They are moving to join Iran's forces

20. Who claimed he had been given the job of hiding WMD?

  • Saddam's son-in-law
  • Chemical Ali
  • Al-Zawahiri