Persian Gulf War
- August 2, 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait
Why did it start?
- Operation Desert Shield- sending troops to Saudia Rabia to look out for them
- Operation Desert Storm- invade Kuwait to free them
- Results
-Coalition Force victory, Iraqi withdrawl from Kuwait, destruction of Iraqi/Kuwaiti infrastructure
- Coalition-482 dead, Iraq 20,000-35,000
- 1991-2003
-no-fly zone, weapons inspectors, WMD's
- Brought 911 upon us
Ronald Reagan
- Born February 6th 1911 in Tampico, Illinois
- After graduating he moved to Iowa and worked as a radio broadcaster
- went to Los Angeles to be an actor
- was the first films then went onto television
- went to be the spokesman of General Electric
- Was a Republican
- the governor of California
- was the president of the us for 2 terms
- won in 1980
- Reaganomic-help lower class people
- air-traffic controllers strike
- surviving an assassination attempt
- escalation of he cold war
- second term-
- war on drugs
- immigration reform and control act
- Challenger disaster
- end of the cold war
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