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U. S. Marine Corps SSgt Angel Arroyo 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (SOC) Combat Camera holds an AK-47 rifle captured from the 440th Iraqi Brigade soldiers During Operation Desert Storm on Failaka Island Kuwait 910303-M-ZZ999-0011
USCIS Civics · Question 114 of 128

Why did the United States enter the Persian Gulf War?

Official Answer

To force the Iraqi military from Kuwait

In plain English

The United States entered the Persian Gulf War to force the Iraqi military from Kuwait. In 1990, Iraq invaded its small neighbor, Kuwait. In 1991, the United States and its allies pushed the Iraqi army out. The United States entered the Persian Gulf War to force the Iraqi military from Kuwait.

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U. S. Marine Corps SSgt Angel Arroyo 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (SOC) Combat Camera holds an AK-47 rifle captured from the 440th Iraqi Brigade soldiers During Operation Desert Storm on Failaka Island Kuwait 910303-M-ZZ999-0011
U. S. Marine Corps SSgt Angel Arroyo 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (SOC) Combat Camera holds an AK-47 rifle captured from the 440th Iraqi Brigade soldiers During Operation Desert Storm on Failaka Island Kuwait 910303-M-ZZ999-0011Unknown authorUnknown author, via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
Image: U. S. Marine Corps SSgt Angel Arroyo 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (SOC) Combat Camera holds an AK-47 rifle captured from the 440th Iraqi Brigade soldiers During Operation Desert Storm on Failaka Island Kuwait 910303-M-ZZ999-0011 — Unknown authorUnknown author, via Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.Answers verbatim from USCIS M-1778 (09/25)