The Persian Gulf War, also known as The Gulf War happened in August 2, 1990 and ended in February 28, 1991. Important people who were involved in the war were the Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and U.S. President George H. W. Bush. It was Iraq against the U.S., U.K., Western European Countries, and Middle East countries. The event took place in many places, like Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Iraq.
The U.S. disliked Iraq support for various Arab and Palestinian militant groups, which led to its inclusion on the developing U.S. list of state sponsors of international terrorism on December 29, 1979. By the time the ceasefire with Iran was signed in August 1988, Iraq was virtually bankrupt, with most of its debt owed to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait. Iraq pressured both nations to forgive the debts, but they refused. Kuwait was also accused by Iraq of exceeding its OPEC quotas and driving down the price of oil, thus further hurting the Iraqi economy.
The Gulf War started with an extensive aerial bombing campaign. The coalition flew over 100,000 sorties, dropping 88,500 tons of bombs and widely destroying military and civilian infrastructure. Then Iraq launched eight Iraq Modified Scud missiles into Israel. The Scud missiles were relatively ineffective. Iraq moved their forces into the Saudi city of Khafji with tanks and infantry. It lasted for 2 days. One hundred hours after the ground campaign started, on February 28, President Bush declared a cease-fire, and he also declared that Kuwait had been liberated.
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