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Gulf War, , 17 Jan 1991- 28 Feb 1991 .( 1 montth -1 week – 4 days ), Location:- Iraq , Kuwait, Persian gu, ulf ( also known as Arabian Gulf ), Israel , Saudi Arabia., 46, , Q.1 Why did the Gulf War start ?, , Ans:- Persian Gulf War, also called Gulf War, (1990, (1990–91),, 91), international conflict, that was triggered by Iraq's invasion of Kuwait o, on August 2, 1990., 1990, ,  In August 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait, rapidly occupying and subsequently annexing it.,  After a series of diplomatic attempts, tempts failed at convincing Iraq to quit its aggression.,  The United Nations mandated the liberation of Kuwait by force.,  The US President George H.W. Bush hailed the emergence of a ‘new world order’.

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Kuwait, United States, United Kingdom, Hussein, , Iraq, , V/S, , Saddam, , 47, , Saudi Arabia, Egypt, France, , 1. A massive coalition force of 6,60,000 troops from 34 countries fought against Iraq and, defeated it in what came to be known as the First Gulf War., 2. The UN operation, which was called ‘Operation Desert Storm’, was overwhelmingly, American., 3. An American general, Norman Schwarzkopf, led the UN coalition and nearly 75 per, cent of the coalition forces were from the US., 4. The Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein, Hussein, had promised “the mother of all battles”, the Iraqi, forces were quickly defeated and forced to withdraw from Kuwait., NOTE:- The highly publicised use of socalled, socalled‘smart bombs’ by the US led some observers to call this a, ‘computer war’. Widespread television coverage also made it a ‘video game war’,, with viewers around the, world watching the destruction of Iraqi forces live on TV, V in the comfort of their living rooms., , Despite winning the First Gulf War, War, George H.W. Bush lost the US presidential elections of, 1992 to William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton of the Democratic Party,, , THE IRAQ INVASION:-, , 1. On 19 March 2003, the US launched its invasion of Iraq under the codename ‘Operation Iraqi Freedom’., 2. More than forty other countries joined in the US, US-led ‘coalition of the willing’, 3. After the UN refused to give its mandate to the invasion.

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