today we went over the new map and the continued the power point and blog disscusions.
the war began when iraq invaded iran. it was caused by-border disputes, fear of shia muslim insugency among iraqs suppressed shia majority influenced by the irainian revolution-saddam hussein was a sunni muslim,iraq wanted to replace iran as the domanit persian gulf state and wanted irans oil feilds. war-iraq didnt do very well, iran was able to regain its teritory, for the next six years iran was on the offencive and accualy enter iraq, the war finally ended when the united nations ordderd ceasefire and was acccepted by both sides, about 1 million iraq and iran civilions died, nothing really changed, US supported iraq in the war. the un condemed an invasion. we sent troops to sadia arabia to prevent a iraqi invasion. persian gulf war- killed 20000-30000. cosnaquences, economic santions remained, weapon inspectors, no fly zone.
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