{"id":3750,"date":"2016-04-29T19:51:41","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T16:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=3750"},"modified":"2016-03-16T19:52:20","modified_gmt":"2016-03-16T16:52:20","slug":"why-did-the-first-gulf-war-take-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/why-did-the-first-gulf-war-take-place\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did the First Gulf War take place?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/Miscellaneous\/menus\/igcse\/why_did_events_in_the_gulf_matter.php\">Part of the IGCSE Paper 2 Study Topic: &#8220;Why did Events in the Gulf Matter?&#8221;<\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><strong>Why did the First Gulf War take place?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/main_area\/worksheets\/igcse\/why_did_events_in_the_gulf_matter\/gulf1\/1_Why_did_Saddam_invade_Kuwait.docx\">Focus Point 1: Why did Saddam invade Kuwait?<br \/>\n<\/a>&#8220;Listed below are various factors relating to the decision to go to war.<br \/>\nUse these to produce TWO brief speeches in role as Saddam:<br \/>\na) To the Iraqi people (your \u2018public\u2019 motives)<br \/>\nb) To your own advisors (your \u2018private\u2019 motives)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Part of the IGCSE Paper 2 Study Topic: &#8220;Why did Events in the Gulf Matter?&#8221; Why did the First Gulf War take place? Focus Point 1: Why did Saddam invade Kuwait? &#8220;Listed below are various factors relating to the decision to go to war. Use these to produce TWO brief speeches in role as Saddam:&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/why-did-the-first-gulf-war-take-place\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[509,510,396],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-Yu","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3751,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3750\/revisions\/3751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}