In 1990, saddam hussein sent iraqi troops to invade and occupy kuwait, a country with huge oil reserves. both the united nations and nato authorized the use of force against iraq to free kuwait. the persian gulf war began and ended in 1991. president george h. w. bush worked hard to create an unusual coalition to fight iraq which included forces from

D.countries in the Middle East

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states began imposing duties on each other's goods. congress had no way to raise money for an army to expel them.

the berlin blockade was an international crisis that arose from an attempt by the soviet union, in 1948–49, to force the western allied powers (the united states, the united kingdom, and france) to abandon their post-world war ii jurisdictions in west berlin. in march 1948 the allied powers decided to unite their different occupation zones of germany into a single economic unit. in protest, the soviet representative withdrew from the allied control council. coincident with the introduction of a new deutsche mark in west berlin (as throughout west germany), which the soviets regarded as a violation of agreements with the allies, the soviet occupation forces in eastern germany began a blockade of all rail, road, and water communications between berlin and the west. on june 24 the soviets announced that the four-power administration of berlin had ceased and that the allies no longer had any rights there.