Match the following incidents in List 1 correctly with the years associated with them in List 2:

Choose the correct answer from the given options:

(A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)

The correct answer is Option 4 - (A)-(II), (B)-(I), (C)-(IV), (D)-(III)

The correct match is:

Explanation:

The first Gulf War was also called Operation Desert Storm. It was fought from 1990-91.

The 9/11 attack occurred on 11 September 2001 in the USA.

The balance of power logic of international politics, as outlined above, is amply supported by history. By convention, we regard 1648 as the year in which the sovereign territorial state emerged as the principal actor in world politics. In the over three and a half centuries since then, there have been only two previous occasions when a single state succeeded in gaining preponderance in the system to a similar degree as the US predominates the system today. France from 1660 to 1713 in the context of European continental politics in the first instance of hegemony, Britain with its global maritime empire from 1860 to 1910 is the second.

Operation Iraqi Freedom was launched by the US on 19th March, 2003 and was joined by more than forty other countries. The purpose of the invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD).