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Date December 2001 - 2014
Participants Afghanistan • United States • al-Qaeda • Taliban
Context September 11 attacks

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Afghanistan War
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Mohammad Omar
Afghanistan: U.S. Special Forces and Northern Alliance
Kandahar, Afghanistan: Stephen Harper visiting troops
Iraq War: George W. Bush with sailors
Hamid Karzai
Afghanistan War
Orūzgān province, Afghanistan: eradication sweep of opium poppies
Barack Obama, Hamid Karzai, and Asif Ali Zardari
Remembering the 9/11 attacks
Watch the speech by U.S. Pres. Barack Obama announcing the killing of Osama bin Laden by U.S. forces, May 2011
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Key People

Barack Obama
Barack Obama
president of United States
George W. Bush
George W. Bush
president of United States
Hamid Karzai
Hamid Karzai
president of Afghanistan
Stanley McChrystal, 2010.
Stanley McChrystal
United States general
Gen. David Petraeus.
David Petraeus
United States commander in chief of Central Command
Robert M. Gates
Robert M. Gates
American government official
Cheney, Dick
Dick Cheney
vice president of United States
Mohammad Omar
Mohammad Omar
emir of Afghanistan
Donald Rumsfeld
Donald Rumsfeld
American government official
Condoleezza Rice
Condoleezza Rice
American government official
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Pat Tillman
American soldier and athlete

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Louis IX of France (St. Louis), stained glass window of Louis IX during the Crusades. (Unknown location.)
World Wars
D-Day. American soldiers fire rifles, throw grenades and wade ashore on Omaha Beach next to a German bunker during D Day landing. 1 of 5 Allied beachheads est. in Normandy, France. The Normandy Invasion of World War II launched June 6, 1944.
A History of War
Civil War era cannon overlooks Kennesaw Mountain National Battle. (military, artillery, American history)
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