Practicing Success

Target Exam

CUET

Subject

Political Science

Chapter

Contemporary World Politics: US Hegemony in World Politics

Question:

Operation Iraqi freedom was launched by the US on:

Options:

20 March 2003

19 March 2003

20 March 2004

19 March 2004

Correct Answer:

19 March 2003

Explanation:

The correct answer is Option 2 - 19 March 2003

On 19 March 2003, the US launched its invasion of Iraq under the codename ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’. More than forty other countries joined in the US-led ‘coalition of the willing’ after the UN refused to give its mandate to the invasion. The US lost over 3000 military personnel in this war. The invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction. The ostensible purpose of the invasion was to prevent Iraq from developing weapons of mass destruction (WMD).