Iraqi invasion of Kuwait
1990 · Event
Saddam Hussein's Iraq seizes Kuwait, triggering an international coalition response.
On these timelines: The Gulf War, Master
More from The Gulf War
- Gulf War (1990)
- Operation Desert Storm (1991)
- The air war opens live on CNN (1991)
- The 100-hour ground war (1991)
- Liberation of Kuwait (1991)
- The UN sets Saddam a deadline (1990)
- Operation Desert Shield (1990)
- Scud missiles hit Israel (1991)
Around 1990
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)