AP Topic 9

An operation where U.S. troops invaded Iraq and Saddam's forces collapsed almost immediately. Baghdad fell, and Saddam and other Iraqi leaders went into hiding.

• Operation Iraqi Freedom

• Operation Iraqi Liberation

• ILO

  (The Iraqi Liberation Operation)

• Operation Baghdad and Saddam

In 1990, he was elected chair of the Russian Supreme Soviet and in 1991 was elected president of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR). He allied with various non-Russian nationalist leaders, and was instrumental in the formal dissolution of the Soviet Union.

• Joseph Stalin

• Vladimir Putin

• Dmitry Medvedev

• Boris Yeltsin

A Chinese revolutionary leader, military commander and statesman who served as the paramount leader of the People's Republic of China from December 1978 to November 1989.

• Mao Zedong

• Deng Xiaoping

• Li Zongren

• Jiang Zemin

An American political scientist and diplomat who served as the 66th United States Secretary of State, and was the second person to hold that office in the administration of President George W. Bush. She was also the first female African-American secretary of state.

• Condoleezza Rice

• Rebecca Felton

• Jeannette Rankin

• Muriel Humphrey Brown

A Libyan revolutionary and politician who governed Libya as its primary leader from 1969 to 2011.

• Mohamed al-Menfi

• Rodolfo Graziani

• Muammar al-Qaddafi

• Italo Balbo

A retired American attorney who served as the first female associate justice of the Supreme Court. She was the first female to be nominated and the first confirmed to the court.

• Elena Kagen

• Sandra Day O’Connor

• Joan Ruth Bader Ginsburg

• Sonia Sotomayor

An American lawyer who served as the 6th Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations. He served as a Marine Corps Officer during the Vietnam War.

• Christopher A. Wray

• Andrew McCabe

• James Comey

• Robert Mueller

This man was a Serbian Politician who was the President of Serbia from 1989 to 1997, and joined the Communist party at the young age of 18.

• Aleksandar Vučić

• Slobodan Miloševic

• Boris Tadić

• Čedomir Antić