Encyclopedia > Gulf War II

  Article Content

Gulf War (disambiguation)

Redirected from Gulf War II

There have been three conflicts in the late 20th century and early 21st century called Gulf War, all of which refer to conflicts in the Persian Gulf region:

  • Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988) (aka First Gulf War). This was a war between Iran and Iraq.
  • Gulf War (1990-1991) (aka First Gulf War, Second Gulf War, ...). This was a war between Iraq and a coalition of nations led by the United States in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait..
  • the 2003 Iraq War (2003) (aka Second Gulf War, Third Gulf War, ...). This was a war between Iraq and a coalition of nations led by the United States, which resulted in the removal from power of the government of Saddam Hussein.


This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.



All Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License

 
  Search Encyclopedia

Search over one million articles, find something about almost anything!
 
 
  
  Featured Article
East Marion, New York

...   Contents East Marion, New York East Marion is a town located in Suffolk County, New York. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 756. ...

 
 
 
This page was created in 39.5 ms