Aftermath of War: Iran-Iraq War, Reconstruction Era of the United States, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Refugee, Deforestation, Deplete

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 207. Chapters: Iran-Iraq War, Reconstruction Era of the United States, Posttraumatic stress disorder, Refugee, Deforestation, Depleted uranium, Prisoner of war, Military brat (U.S. subculture), Military use of children, Medecins Sans Frontieres, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, Aftermath of the Libyan civil war, International Committee of the Red Cross, Social psychology, Occupation of Japan, Iron Curtain, Peace and conflict studies, Chemical weapon, Combat stress reaction, Aftermath of the September 11 attacks, Aftermath of the Falklands War. Excerpt: The Iran-Iraq War, also known as the First Persian Gulf War, was an armed conflict between Iran and Ba'athist Iraq lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the 20th century's longest conventional war after the Second Sino-Japanese War. It was initially referred to in English as the "Persian Gulf War" prior to the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s. The Iran-Iraq War began when Iraq invaded Iran via simultaneous invasions by air and land on 22 September 1980. It followed a long history of border disputes, and was motivated both by fears that the Iranian Revolution in 1979 would inspire insurgency among Iraq's long-suppressed Shia majority as well as Iraq's desire to replace Iran as the dominant Persian Gulf state. Although Iraq hoped to take advantage of Iran's revolutionary chaos and attacked without formal warning, they made only limited progress into Iran and were quickly repelled; Iran regained virtually all lost territory by June 1982. For the next six years, Iran was on the offensive. Despite calls for a ceasefire by the United Nations Security Council, hostilities continued until 20 August 1988. The war finally ended with Resolution 598, a U.N.-brokered ceasefire which was accepted by both sides. At the war's conclusion, it took several weeks for Iran's military to evacuate Iraqi territory to honour pre-war international borders set by the 1975 Algiers Agreement. The last prisoners of war were exchanged in 2003. The war cost both sides in lives and economic damage: half a million Iraqi and Iranian soldiers, as well as civilians, are believed to have died, with many more injured; however, it brought neither reparations nor changes in borders. The conflict has been compared to World War I in terms of the tactics used, including large-scale trench warfare with barbed wire stretched across trenches, manned machine-gun posts, bayonet charges, human wave attacks across a no-man's land, and extensive use of chemical weapons such as mustard gas by the Ir