United States deployed a total of 697,000 troops. 143 were killed in action (96 Army soldiers, 22 Marines, 20 airmen 20 and 5 sailors).
This means 0.02 % of deployed United States soldiers were killed in action during the Gulf War.
The "boom" years of the 1920's were characterized by a growth in the use of Automobiles.
While looking at the history of the United States, the 'boom years' of the early 1920s were marked by a huge change in the way people traveled.
Personal transportation was shifting from horse-driven carriages to Automobiles, recently mass-produced by Ford.
At the time, the automobiles were a clear sign of growing economic might of the United States and the optimism of the early 1920s.
Minorities in world war 2 were given jobs to help in the war effort like building planes or ships
It had a lot of hills so it did affect because it took longer for them to get to the place they were heading, rather than if it had been flat.