Gulf War

From Joy Hakim's "Freedom: A History Of Us" - (pg. 386) Saddam Hussein, dictator of the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq, sends troops into neighboring Kuwait, a small, oil-rich kingdom, and the president (George H.W. Bush) quickly leads a forceful response in partnership with the United Nations. Talking to other world leaders directly, he gets hesitant Arab chiefs to agree to back sanctions against the aggressor. The brief Gulf War is labeled Operation Desert Storm. The Gulf War helped to set up the next Iraq war, when George W. Bush was in office.