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Operation Desert Shield Ordered

Name: Operation Desert Shield Ordered – United States factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

United States · Warfare / Gulf War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1990

George Herbert Walker Bush7 August 1990

Washington · Warfare / Gulf War, 1st

Orders US forces to deploy to Saudi Arabia.

Names involved

George Herbert Walker Bush

Provenance

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