today we continued the blog discussion and bruns also continued his powerpoint. the iran-iraq war began in 1980 to 1988 and it began when iraq invaded iran, what caused it was border disputes, fears of shia muslim insurgency among iraq's long suppressed shia majority influenced by the iranian revolution- saddam hussein was sunni muslim, iraq wanted to replace iran as the dominant persian gulf state wanted irans oil fields. iraq did not fair too well, iran was able to regain most lost territory by 1982, for the next six years, iran was on the offensive and actually entered iraq, the war finally ended with a UN ceasefire which was accepted by both sides, nothing really changed as a result of the war, US supported iraq in this war. the causes of the persian gulf war was caused by the massive debt, iraq invaded kuwait because iraq claimed that kuwait was drilling for oil across the border into iraqs fields. operation desert shield was what we did first by sending troops to saudi arabia because we were concerned iraq was going to invade to "shield". UN condemned the invasion and demanded an immediate withdrawl of iraqi troops, UN authorized a naval blockade to enforce the economic sanctions against iraq, after deadline, UN could use "all necessary means" to force iraq out of kuwait, our goal for this war was to liberate kuwait.
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