How are the Gulf War and the 1990s War on Terrorism comparable to the Iraq War and the current Terrorism threat?

In August of 1990, Iraq invaded Kuwait. The United Nations Security Council decreed that Iraq withdraw its forces by January 15, 1998 When Iraq's leader, Saddam Hussein, refused to withdraw his troops, President George Bush formed an international coalition to force Iraqi soldiers to leave Kuwait.

On January 16, the United States and its allies launched Operation Desert Storm: a devastating air attack on Iraqi targets in Kuwait and Iraq. The air attacks continued until February 24, when a massive ground attack by U.S. troops and their allies from 28 nations routed the Iraqi ground forces, forcing a humiliating Iraqi retreat. As the Iraqi troops fled, they set fire to hundreds of Kuwaiti oil wells, creating an environmental disaster.

Bush declared a ceasefire on February 28 In the aftermath of the war, Hussein's army ruthlessly suppressed rebel uprisings in Iraq, leading the United States and Britain to enforce no-fly zones in certain regions of Iraq to provide some protection for the rebels.

Let's go back to the era of the 1990s.

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Click the 1990s icon, then select Foreign Policy and Terrorism.

Critical thinking is a 21st Century skill that is often missing from most inquiry-based learning activities. Often this is a result of topical assignments made by teachers whose experience with assessment is multiple choice testing. The focus of these tests is who, what, when, and where, leading to reports that duplicate encyclopedia articles and are devoid of original thought and critical thinking. All ProQuest inquiry-based learning activities rely on essential questions for critical thinking based on the Bloom Taxonomy.

Assign students a 200-word essay, citing at least three resources, that addresses at least three of the following examples of essential questions for critical thinking (you can create or substitute others):

• How are the reasons for the Gulf War similar and different from the current Iraq War?
• Why did the first President Bush decide to leave Iraq instead of remaining?
• Was his decision responsible for the current Iraq War--why or why not?
• Is our current presence in Iraq helping us to win the War on Terror--why or why not?

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