Monday, April 8th

[6Jenna]

Today, we learned about our assigned blog. I have to research Luxembourg. Tomorrow Mr. Bruns will be gone, so we will have our group test of Europe map. Then we went over the Europe map again. We then continued our blog discussion. The Persian Gulf War---Opperation Desert Shield (Aug 1980) and Opperation Desert Storm (Jan 1991). Desert Shield--Iraq invaded Kuwait. George H Bush thought that if they sent troops, they would protect people from war and stuff. Desert Storm happened when the US told them if they took over, we would invade them. Invaded them in Feb. 1991. Suddam Housain has a really long name that I ain't writing. He was born April 28th, 1937 in Iraq. Was sent to live with uncle at age 3. His mom was depressed because his father left them. Baath was his part he started. He graduated at 18 and applied for military but wasnt accepted. He then went to law school but dropped out. THen started the baath. Got married and had 2 kids. Got married again when he was still married and 1st wife fled cause of the gulf war and she was mad. He was very into politics. He was captured in 2003 and was in a trial and was sentenced to death. THe Iraq government killed him in 2006 by hanging him. He took over oil companies and made jobs, so he did something positive. Had 2 staged electing. He put up many pictures and statues of himself to let people know he is everywhere so they will behave. In the 1980's, the US supported him. Iran was the US enemy in the 1980's. He gassed people and he then began becoming the bad guy. Iraq was the side we helped in the 1980's. He was put to death for using gas to kill the Kurdish people.  Weapons inspectors went into countries to see if they were making nuclear weapons. The no fly zone was something that we would fly over areas to make sure the area was free of iraqie military people during the 1980's.