Examples include Lebanon's Cedar Revolution ( 2005 ); and Kuwait's Blue Revolution ( 2005 ).

As a consequence of this Iran attacked Kuwait's oil tankers and Kuwait was forced to seek protection from the United States, which sent warships to the Persian Gulf.

In October 1987, Kuwait's Sea Island off shore oil terminal was hit by an Iranian Silkworm which was observed to have originated from the Faw peninsula.

Subsequent to Kuwait's independence from Britain in June 1961, President Abd al-Karim Qasim directed belligerent speeches against the oil-rich Gulf state, declaring it an integral component of sovereign Iraq.

Upon completion in 1993, the tower was renamed the Liberation Tower, symbolizing Kuwait's liberation from Iraq.

Kuwait's citizenship law, in theory, gives citizenship to those who descend, in the male line, from residents of Kuwait in 1920.

This island is important because it is a link in a chain of islands along Kuwait's coastline from north to south, which provide Kuwait with a defensive frontline.

It inaugurated Kuwait's first free-trade zone in 1999 and will continue discussions with foreign oil companies to develop fields in the northern part of the country.

In 1938 oil was discovered in Kuwait's southern Burqan fields, and both countries contracted with foreign oil companies to perform exploration work in the Divided Zone.

Kuwait's Al Burqan Oil Field, the world's List of oil fields | second largest oil field

The invasion, which followed the inconclusive Iran – Iraq War and three decades of political conflict with Kuwait, offered Saddam Hussein the opportunity to distract political dissent at home and add Kuwait's oil resources to Iraq's own, a boon in a time of declining petroleum prices.

Throughout much of the 1980s, Kuwait's oil production was considerably above its mandatory OPEC quota and this had prevented a further increase in crude oil prices.

" It was estimated that between 1985 and 1989, Iraq lost US $ 14 billion a year due to Kuwait's oil price strategy.

Kuwait's refusal to decrease its oil production was viewed by Iraq as an act of aggression against it.

During the Iran – Iraq War, Iraqi oil drilling operations in Rumaila declined while Kuwait's operations increased.

Most of Kuwait's oil is located in the Great Burgan area ( reserves of approximately 70 billion barrels ) and is considered to be the world's second largest oil field.

In May 2008 the Kuwait National Petroleum Company awarded a construction contract to a consortium of Asian companies — Japan's JGC Corporation, South Korea ’ s GS, SK, Daelim Industrial, and Hyundai — and a consulting contract to Fluor to build an oil refinery, which would be Kuwait's fourth.

It was fixed in a 1913 treaty between the Ottoman Empire and British officials acting on behalf of Kuwait's ruling family, which in 1899 had ceded control over foreign affairs to Britain.

Kuwait's relations with Jordan weakened during the Gulf War because of Jordan's stand with Iraq.

The port also gave the Shaikh a territorial base just as Kuwait's entrepôt economy, oriented to fixed land and sea routes, caused the nomads to become sedentary and desert grazing for shipbuilding, pearling, and long-distance trade.

In essence, this policy gave Britain control of Kuwait's foreign policy.

The treaty also gave Britain responsibility for Kuwait's national security.

The border was revisited by a memorandum sent by the British high commissioner for Iraq in 1923, which became the basis for Kuwait's northern border.

The 1920s and 30s saw the collapse of the pearl fishery and with it Kuwait's economy.

Kuwait's most prominent geographic feature is Kuwait Bay, which indents the shoreline for about forty kilometers, providing natural protection for the port of Kuwait and accounting for nearly onehalf the state's shoreline.

Kuwait's Winter is colder compared to all the other Persian Gulf countries like Bahrain, Qatar or UAE.

Approximately 96 % of Kuwait's population is urbanized while 4 % are nomadic or semi-nomadic.

The State of Kuwait's current population is estimated at roughly 3-3. 5 million people ; counting both locals and foreigners.

Roughly 1 million ( or nearly one third ) of Kuwait's population is local, with 2-2. 5 million residents registered as foreigners / non-locals.

Kuwait's parliament is the strongest of those found in the monarchies of the Gulf.

Forty kilometers away is Iran, who had proclaimed its aim of exporting its Iranian Revolution ; while the other powerful neighbor, Iraq, had repeatedly challenged Kuwait's legitimacy and subsequently invaded Kuwait twice.

* 1962 – Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

* November 30 – The Soviet Union vetoes Kuwait's application for United Nations membership.

Further, in October 1994, when several elite Iraqi divisions began to move toward Kuwait's border, the United States mobilized ground, air, and naval forces in the area to counter the threat.

They conducted the initial attack so quickly that many of Kuwait's military vehicles never left their motor pool.

The Marine Brigade was deployed on Kuwait's nine islands, all of which with the exception of Failaka Island are uninhabited.

As part of the postwar austerity, these groups were inactivated, with the personnel and equipment being consolidated into the 43d Bombardment Group in October.

After his initial 1948 plan to expand the Army and modernize its equipment was rejected by the Truman Administration, Bradley reacted to the increasingly severe postwar defense department budget cutbacks imposed by Secretary of Defense Louis A. Johnson by publicly supporting Johnson's decisions, going so far as to tell Congress that he would be doing a " disservice to the nation " if he asked for a larger military force.

It started exporting radio-broadcast equipment to Korea under the first major postwar contract in 1951.

Crosley introduced several " firsts " in the American automobile industry, including the first use of the term ' Sport Utility ' in 1948 ( albeit on an open model based on the wagon, not a wagon on a truck chassis ); first mass-market single overhead camshaft ( SOHC ) engine in 1946 ; first slab-sided postwar car, also in 1946 ; first all steel-bodied wagon in 1947 ; first American car to be fitted with 4-wheel caliper type disc brakes in the 1949 model year ( Chrysler Imperial introduced four-wheel disc brakes as standard equipment on Crown Imperials at the beginning of the 1949 model year, but they were not of the caliper type ); and the first American sports car, the Hotshot, in the 1949 model year.

Although truck orders during World War II enabled it to revive somewhat, the company remained unstable in the postwar era, resulting in a bankruptcy reorganization.

At the end of the war Kartveli designed a sleek flying photo lab called the Republic XF-12, initially planned as a four-engine postwar transport ; American Airliners canceled its orders and only two prototypes were built for the US Air Force.

After the end of World War II, the newly-organized West German Bundeswehr placed new orders with German cutlery manufacturers for a postwar version of the FJM for issue to certain units of the West German Army, including its airborne forces.

The 1950s brought a difficult time for the bodybuilding industry: the end of the increased postwar demand led to a rapid decline in orders, and competition for the remaining ones became intense.