History of the United States II / Unit 16 USH2 2290 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Iraq Invades Kuwait
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The idea
On August second, nineteen ninety, some eighty thousand Iraqi troops invaded and occupied Kuwait, the oil-rich emirate on the Persian Gulf, Digital History records.
In practice
Bush declaring on August sixth: this aggression will not stand.
Where people slip
Digital History notes that in the nineteen seventies and eighties the United States and others had sold Iraq much of its arsenal.
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