Please write all your answers on a separate sheet of binder paper. Do NOT print in the computer lab. Use the links below to find all the answers.

For the first 16 questions use the Saddam Hussein link below.

1. Saddam Hussein was the ruthless dictator in Iraq from when to when?

2. What does the name Saddam mean?

3. How come Hussein could not get into the military?

4. Which one of his relatives introduced him to the world of politics?

5. When he was just 20 years old what political party did he join up with?

6. Why did Hussein have to flee Iraq in 1959?

7. What two countries did he live in after he fled Iraq?

8. What relative did he marry in 1963?

9. In 1968 when the Baath party gained control of Iraq what position did Hussein have in the government?

10. What was the final result of the war Iraq had with Iran?

11. What kind of weapons did Hussein use against the Kurds?

12. How many Kurds were killed in Halabja in March of 1988?

13.In 1990 Hussein ordered his troops to take control of what country?

14. What powerful nation defended that country in the Persian Gulf War?

15. Where was Hussein hiding when American troops found him in 2003?

16. How was Hussein executed?

For the next set of questions use the Kurds link below.

17. How many Kurds are there?

18. Where do they come from?

19. Why don't they have a home state?

20. Why are the Kurds fighting against IS?

21. What is 'IS'?

22. Why is Turkey reluctant to help the Kurds?

23. What do Syria's Kurds want?

24. What percentage of Iraq's population is Kurdish? 

25. Based on the above answers - do you think the United Nations should create a homeland country for the Kurds called Kurdistan - why or why not?