... language is Arabic, but English is also widely spoken. Kuwait is the world's tenth largest oil exporter and oil composes seventy-five percent of the government's annual income. One thing that has really caught my interest about Kuwait is the fact that women have many of the same rights as men. ... the Gulf Region) and hold job positions that are not normally available to women in the Middle East. Some of these include positions in the government, oil industry, and even the running of independent businesses. Women also enjoy a central role in their families. They are able to go out and ...

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... of his political power, and his military purges. Saddam finally gained control of the Iraq presidency in 1979. His many goals as President included attempting to increase industrial production, reorganizing government policies in agriculture, and improving education and the status of women. Hussein first began a successful development program of Iraq's huge petroleum resources. However, this development and economic and social ... advances were at risk when Iraq went to war with Iran from 1980 to 1988. Hussein started this war to control Arab-inhabited areas and especially for oil resour...

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... the often unstable Middle East. "The Middle East had been the source of many of the world's wars after World War II, sometimes almost to point of going nuclear."4 The Arab partners in the Coalition joined the union to prevent what had happened to Kuwait to occur to them. The United States and the other Western partners wanted to ensure a steady ... creating instability in the Middle East. The best way to restore order to the region and create some stability was to force Iraq out of Kuwait and severely weaken his government and military which the Allies were successful in doing. 4AP Pres...

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... actually pushed through to Kuwait and Iraq. Also on this date, Hussein declared that he was annexing Kuwait as part of Iraq. Previously, Hussein had been trying to set up a government in Kuwait that thoroughly supported Iraq and all of its views. This was obviously too much for Hussein to handle because Kuwait would still be a separate nation from Iraq, and ... world, especially the Middle East. On August 12, Hussein proposed his own peace plan that involved the withdrawal of all U.S. forces, and replacement of them by a much smaller and weaker Arab force. He also called for the withdra...

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... Iraq and half the countries of the world like, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Australia, Canada, Italy, even Arab countries like, Egypt, Syria ,Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Morocco. That war started after the Iraqi occupation on Kuwait. The Iraqi government occupied Kuwait because Kuwait was trying to destroy the Iraqi economy by supersaturating the world markets with oil and selling it ... the Iraqi economy go down. At that time Iraq was in an emergency need for money because it had newly exited from the eight years Iraqi-Iran war. The Iraqi government got mad and occupied Kuw...

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