Constituent Mail Analysis Project > Analysis of 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War Correspondence

Gulf War Resources

Chronology:

2 Aug 1990	Iraq invades Kuwait
29 Nov 1990	U.N. Security Council authorizes "all means necessary" to eject Iraq from Kuwait
12 Jan 1991	Military Force Against Iraq Resolution (Senate Joint Resolution 2) passes
15 Jan 1991	U.N. deadline for the Iraqi withdrawal
17 Jan 1991	Allied air attack on Iraq begins
24 Feb 1991	Ground attack begins
3 Mar 1991	General Swartzkopf meets with Iraqi generals
8 Jun 1991	Victory parade in Washington, DC

Websites documenting the war include the following. (Many of these sites include more detailed time lines.)

• BBC. Flashback: Desert Storm. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/middle_east/1118611.stm
  
  
• BBC. Saddam's Iraq: Key Events (including a section on the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/spl/hi/middle_east/02/iraq_events/html/default.stm
  
  
• CNN. Strike on Iraq: the Persian Gulf War. http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/1998/iraq/9802/gulf.war.recap/prelude/
  
  
• Frontline (PBS). The Gulf War: an In-Depth Examination of the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf Crisis. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/cron/
  
  
• USA Today. 1991 Gulf War chronology. http://www.usatoday.com/news/index/iraq/nirq050.htm
  
  
• Washington Post. The Fog of War: the 1991 Air Battle for Baghdad.
  http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/fogofwar/fogofwar.htm