The UN sets Saddam a deadline
1990 · Event
Security Council Resolution 678 authorises 'all necessary means' to eject Iraq from Kuwait if it has not left by 15 January — only the second time the UN has ever authorised war, and the first with the Soviet Union voting yes. The Cold War is over enough for the world to line up on one side.
On these timelines: The Gulf War, USA, Master, Cold War
More from The Gulf War
- Gulf War (1990)
- Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990)
- Operation Desert Storm (1991)
- The air war opens live on CNN (1991)
- The 100-hour ground war (1991)
- Liberation of Kuwait (1991)
- Scud missiles hit Israel (1991)
- Operation Desert Shield (1990)
Around 1990
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1980s (1980)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)
- Fall of the Berlin Wall (1989)