Gulf
War
Map
of the Middle East | Activity 1 | Activity
2
The Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm, was a
war of religious fervor. Or was it? Did Saddam Hussein want
to make his country whole again, or was this a ploy to garner
the oil reserves? In 1990 he invaded Kuwait and in less than
four hours he had taken the country. Now he controlled 24
percent of the world's oil supplies. It seemed as if his next
target was Saudi Arabia.
Saudi Arabia asked the United States for protection. The
U.S. set a deadline for all Iraq forces to be out of Kuwait.
Technology played a big part in our victory that was celebrated
in 1991.
The Gulf War (Frontline)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf
Desert Storm http://www.desert-storm.com
Desert Storm Pictures and Links http://www.eskimo.com/~ktlange/storm.html
Operation Desert Storm
http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/ops/desert_storm.htm
Chronology of the Gulf War
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/cron
Weapons
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/weapons
Neurological Dysfunction in Gulf War Veterans
http://www.desert-storm.com/soldiers/report1.html
Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm: Women Were There
http://userpages.aug.com/captbarb/femvetsds.html
Persian Gulf War (what experts thought about the war)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/decision.html
Women in U.S. Military During Desert Shield/Desert Storm
http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq48-3f.htm
Key People
Richard Cheney
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/cheney/1.html
General Norman Schwarzkopf
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/schwarzkopf/1.html
Colin Powell
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/powell/1.html
Tariq Aziz
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/oral/aziz/1.html
Saddam Hussein
http://www.geocities.com/tchase_2000/Iraq.html
Activity
1
| Objective |
Student will become expert
groups in an area of the Gulf War and present five facts
to the class. |
| Procedure |
- Students will break into groups of two or three.
- Each group will select one question or statement
from the list below:
- Give a chronology of the Gulf War and Operation
Desert Storm.
- What were the key factors that brought the United
States into the war?
- Who were the main "players" in the
war? In other words, what people were decision
makers and what decisions did they make?
- How was technology used to help the United States
win the war?
- What were some problems that the American soldiers
encountered? (personal, medical, etc.)
- How does this war compare to other wars that
the United States has fought? (duration, loss
of life, etc.)
- What was the role of women in the Desert Storm
conflict?
- Students will find five key facts that they
deem important about the question they have selected
and write them on the worksheet provided. (Click
here to get the worksheet.)
- Students will compose five questions -- one pertaining
to each of their five main facts -- and write them
on the worksheet. The questions from each group will
be used as the final test for this section.
- Students will determine a way to teach the rest
of the class the five facts that they believe are
important about their topic. They should think about
how they learn best and try to model that in their
presentation. The students could use multimedia presentations,
posters, skits, hands-on activities, commercials,
public service announcements, etc. The type of presentation
is up to the group.
- Students can make a study sheet to pass out to the
students.
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| Evaluation |
The teacher will give
a test made up of the questions that each group has
turned in. That test will be graded according to the
standards of the school. |
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Activity
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| Objective |
Students will write a paper
explaining how an American soldier might have felt in
the Gulf War. |
| Procedure |
- Students will read the article titled "Interview
With an Iraqi Soldier: The View From the Other Side
of the Jebel [Hill]." They can either click on
the Web site at http://www.desert-storm.com/soldiers/int.html
or you can use the reprint in
this guide.
- After students have read this article and have done
some research as suggested in the above activities,
they should write a narrative about how they might
feel as an American soldier serving in Operation Desert
Storm.
- Students may want to interview a person who actually
served in Desert Storm to get ideas about how soldiers
really felt while serving.
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| Evaluation |
Click here to get
rubric for evaluation. |
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