Read the excerpt below and answer the question.
and at last they took a change and begun to lay their heads together in the wigwam and talk low and
confidential two or three hours at a time. jim and me got uneasy. we didn't like the look of it. we judged they
was studying up some kind of worse deviltry than ever. we turned it over and over, and at last we made up
our minds they was going to break into somebody's house or store, or was going into the counterfeit-money
business, or something.
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Examine the dates in this timeline: • 1918: the ottoman empire loses control of iraq to the britishfollowing world war i.• 1932: the kingdom of iraq is granted its independence from greatbritain• 1945: mustafa barzani leads a failed rebellion against the iraqigovernment• 1948: the al-wathbah uprising results in protests against the iraqigovernment before it is violently suppressed.• 1958: the kingdom of iraq is overthrown by military leaders whoestablish the republic of iraq,• 1980: iraq invades iran, launching the iran iraq war.• 1990: iraq invades kuwait but is defeated by united nations forcesled by the united states.• 2003: the united states and its allies invade iraq and remove itsdictator, saddam hussein.which title would best suit the period in iraqi history from 1980 through1990? a. the era of political instability and protestb. the era of american involvementc. the era of iraqi aggressiond. the era of early iraqi independence