The Highway of Death
1991 · Event
Coalition aircraft catch the Iraqi army retreating from Kuwait City on Highway 80 and destroy over a thousand vehicles in hours. The images of the charred column shock the world and weigh on the White House — the spectacle of slaughter is part of why the war stops at 100 hours.
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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)
- The UN sets Saddam a deadline (1990)
- Operation Desert Shield (1990)
Around 1991
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- Dissolution of the Soviet Union (1991)
- Chernobyl disaster (1986)
- Yugoslav Wars (1991)
- (Everything I Do) I Do It for You (Bryan Adams) (1991)
- Invention of the World Wide Web (1989)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- That's The Way Love Goes (Janet Jackson) (1993)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 1990s (1990)