8th grade documentary | 2011
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Persian Gulf War
1. When did this war take place and who fought in it?
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=persian+gulf+war
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2. What three countries did most of the fighting take place in?
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/extmedia?id=ar424190&st=persian+gulf+war&em=lr
004201
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3. What area of the ancient world does modern Iraq exist in? Were any of the ancient artifacts
damaged in the Persian Gulf War?
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/media?id=sr592007
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4. This war started because Iraq invaded Kuwait. What did the leader of Iraq, Saddam Hussein,
hope to gain by taking Kuwait?
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=persian+gulf+war&sc=1
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5. Watch the beginning of the “Video Excerpt” The Dramatic Countdown to War. Who issues a
final ultimatum while the oil wells burn across Kuwait? Who is the “talking head?”
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/
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8th grade documentary | 2011
6. Read one of the stories in the War Stories section of the PBS Frontline: The Gulf War website.
Briefly summarize what this person’s experience was.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/gulf/war/
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8. Locate and save an image of the Persian Gulf War on the Wisconsin Historical Society’s web
site.
- save it as a .jpg to the shared server. Name the .jpg your last name and the war, save in
the Shared > 8th grade > Documentaries > your hour (example: Procell_photo_WWII.jpg)
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org/whi/results.asp?subject_narrow=Persian+Gulf+War%2C+1991
Title of picture: ____________________________________________
9. Watch the interview with journalist Bob Pearson. What event does he say reporters missed in
the Gulf war?
http://www.newseum.org/warstories/interviews/index.htm
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10. What did the United States call the Persian Gulf War?
http://www.worldbookonline.com/student/article?id=ar424190&st=persian+gulf+war
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