Went over the Canada maps and talked about the new assigned blogs. I got gender equality for my assigned blog topic. These are the main focuses to hit on the assigned blog: define/explain the goal and all it’s targets, explain why it is a goal—explain the problems the world is having with your issue, explain how the world has or has not made progress with your goal.
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August 2, 1990 Persian gulf war began it ended on February 28, 1991. Codenamed operation desert storm. It was a war waged by a UN - authorized coalition force form 34 nations led by US. Coalition lost 392 and killed 20,000-35,000 people in Iraq. Many United Nations countries held economic sanctions on them, set in weapons inspectors, and there was a no fly zone. No fly zone was were the United states flew around daily to make sure that everything they said to do was being followed. Iraq War (2003-2011) Called operation Iraqi freedom by the US military. Conflict that occurred in Iraq from March 20, 2003 to December 18,2011. Had chemical weapons because he used them, but then made up that he had lots more and only said this to protect him. Causes for the war: fight on terror; terrorist train bases there, had a lot of good oil and US wanted it, to help establish a democracy, and we thought they had nuclear weapons. Really wanted rid all of Saddam Husain's power. Obama took down the Sadam Husain regime, "surge"(stay at war until the government is in control) has worked tremendously, abjure prison scandal did not help us it just made more countries look at us negatively.
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