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Globalization and The Persian Gulf War

By: Ian McCarthy

New World Order

  • Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  • One True Superpower
  • World Police

New World Order

Invasion of Kwuait

Invasion Of Kuwait

  • Invasion of Oil Rich Kuwait
  • OPEC "violations"
  • Provisional Free Government of Kuwait
  • “Arabs, brothers, beloved brothers, Muslims. Hurry to our aid.” Sheikh Jābir
  • Government-in-exile

Politics

  • UN Resolution 661
  • US and Arab Condemnation
  • Palestine Liberation Organization

Invasion and Politics

Invasion and Action

Invasion and Action

  • Bombing Campaign
  • Human Shields
  • Operation Desert Shield
  • Scud Attacks
  • Operation Desert Storm
  • Collation

Changes

  • Single Major Superpower
  • Defined military tactics and policy
  • Infulenced US policy and geopolitics
  • Impacted the future of the middle east
  • New Techologys used and Combat changed with use of Scud missles

Connections

Connections

  • Showed the importance of natural resources, And caused conflict as in past wars.
  • Infulenced Policy which changed our futures
  • Caused conflicts and instability in the region
  • Use of evolving techonlogys and shows the Impact past tech has.

Values and Concerns

  • Shows the dependance on finate resources
  • Troubled the world with mass civilian causualties like we see in Ukraine or Crimea.
  • Showed instability in the region causing conflicts resulting in mass migration and loss of human rights

Values and Concerns

Effect on Middle East

Effect on Middle East

  • Allowed instability in the region, which directly or indirectly cause wars and allowed terrorism to flourish.
  • Greatly reduced human rights and caused genocide
  • Led to mass migration
  • Genocide with the Kurds or in Israel

Importance and US Reaction

Importance and US reaction

  • Gulf War Syndrome
  • US population had no moral objections
  • Infulenced invasion of Iraq
  • Inabled terriorsim
  • Help change US policy and law

Summary

  • One world power
  • Oil
  • Invasion
  • Aftermath
  • Changes

Summary

Works Cited

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“The First Gulf War.” U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of State, https://history.state.gov/departmenthistory/short-history/firstgulf.

“Gulf War Syndrome.” Johns Hopkins Medicine, Johns Hopkins Medicine, https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/gulf-war-syndrome.

History.com Editors. “Persian Gulf War.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 9 Nov. 2009, https://www.history.com/topics/middle-east/persian-gulf-war#section_6.

Jr., Joseph S. Nye. “What New World Order?” Foreign Affairs, Foreign Affairs, 17 Feb. 2022, https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/1992-03-01/what-new-world-order.

“New World Order (Politics).” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 4 Mar. 2022, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_world_order_(politics).

Rafferty., John P. “Persian Gulf War.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 2 Aug. 2014, https://www.britannica.com/event/Persian-Gulf-War.

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