Invasion of Kuwait

Chapter 20: The Seventies: Under Control?: The government and their apparent lack of control was a large concern of the American people. People had little to no trust for the government. Juries were acquitting those that they should have convicted due to the Vietnam War. And then there was the Nixon disgrace known as the Watergate Scandal. He had claimed that the White House had no involvement, but his Vice President even resigned. After that, his support almost completely did a one-eighty.…

Operation HUSKY, the Allied invasion of Sicily launched in July of 1943 was one of the largest joint operations of the Second World War. By mid-August, the Allies captured Messina, the campaign’s key strategic objective. A literal as well as a developmental stepping-stone between the Allies’ victory in North Africa and the invasion of Hitler’s Fortress Europe, HUSKY was an important Allied victory. However, it was an imperfect victory, diminished by the escape of over 100,000 Axis soldiers.…

Rallying A Nation Families all across America huddled together in fear of the next attack that could shatter their whole world in an instant. This is how the American people felt directly after the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and the crash landing in Pennsylvania. Americans needed to hear from their leader; they needed reassurance that the country would be able to pick up the pieces, and they needed to know how the nation and the rest of the world would…

directive spelled out four national goals: “the immediate, complete, and unconditional withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait; the restoration of Kuwait’s legitimate government; restoration of the security and stability of the Gulf region, and finally the protection of the lives of American citizens abroad.” This document came out eighteen days after Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait. National Security Directive 45 was the forerunner to the January 15, 1991 National Security Directive 54, which…

and former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell. Since his retirement, he 's gone rogue, lambasting many aspects of the Iraq war, including his own preparation of Powell 's presentation to the United Nations. But in a world where the invasion hadn’t happened? “I think we would have a rough balance of power,” he answered. “Saddam Hussein would perhaps be restarting his weapons of mass destruction program – not to attack the United States, but to defend himself. We could have…

The purpose was to overthrow Fidel Castro’s communist rule of Cuba. The whole operation was based on the assumption that the Cubans would welcome an invasion. The CIA completely failed to successfully execute the operation. The failure of Big of pigs had several ripple effects. It put fear in Castro, causing him to take help from U.S.S.R, which planned to establish military bases in Cuba. After the…

After the war that occurred in Iraq and the dictatorship that came along with it by Suddam Hussein, the United States government conducted themselves as the primary source of repairing the damage and rebuilding Iraq. During that time, the United States government was held by the Bush administration. After all the damage was so called “fixed”, the Iraq government was still left in shambles; civilians, American troops, and political leaders were still being murdered. According to Larry Diamond…

The Cold War long defined American foreign policy. American foreign policy was forced to embody American national identity by advocating for economic freedom and countering the Soviet Union across the globe. Once the Cold War ended, the U.S. faced a world with new actors and new challenges. This new world necessitated a new foreign policy as well. After the Cold War, U.S. foreign policy struggled to meet different challenges, but its core objective of spreading American ideology remained. The…

Soviets for support. President Kennedy took immediate action by authorizing an invasion of Cuban by 1,200 anti-Castro Cuban exiles with the hope that a large public revolt will remove Castro. This plan named the Bay of Pigs was a complete failure with the Cuban army killing and capturing the exiles thus being a humiliation for the U.S. government. President Kennedy took full blame for the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion, however continued to allow numerous CIA led assassination attempts on…

The idea of a scapegoat prevails throughout history. From the Jews throughout the Middle Ages in Europe, to the Blacks during the early 20th century in the United States, minorities groups have beared the burden of discrimination and marginalization in all societies around the world. The majority peoples of societies dehumanized these minority peoples, and, thus, allowed themselves to blame these groups for the many problems they faced that were either unsolvable or were very difficult to solve.…