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Ch 26 Section 4
The World in Transition
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History
12th Grade
03/11/2009

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[image] Boris Yeltsin
Definition
Russian leader who sent Russian troops into Chechnya
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[image] Alexander Lebed
Definition
Yeltsin’s aide who was sent by Yeltsin to Chechnya to work out an agreement to end the conflict.
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[image] Slobodan Milosevic
Definition
president of Serbia
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[image] Alija Izetbegovic
Definition
president of Bosnia-Herzegovina
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[image] Franjo Tudjman
Definition
president of Croatia
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[image] Brian Mulroney
Definition
prime minister whose Conservative party came to power in 1984; tried in vain to get English-speaking Canada to accept a special status for Quebec.
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[image] Jean Chretien
Definition
prime minister who was a firm believer in national unity and opposed Quebec separation.
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[image] Zahid Olorcic
Definition
remembers how to multi-ethnic population lived in harmony
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[image] Sarajevo
Definition
the Bosnian capital
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[image] Dayton
Definition
where the three presidents met in November 1995 and agreed to the partition of Bosnia into distinct Serb and Muslim-Croat areas
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[image] Tajikistan
Definition
Central Asia Republic that had peacekeeping forces that were backed by the CIS.
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[image] Chechnya
Definition
territory of the Chechens located in Southern Russia near the Caspian Sea
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[image] Armenia
Definition
claimed ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh; made significant advances and took control of much of the disputed territory.
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[image] Azerbaijan
Definition
claimed ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh; Nagorno-Karabakh lies entirely within this enclave.
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[image] Nagorno-Karabakh
Definition
enclave claimed by Armenia and Azerbaijan
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[image] Sri Lanka
Definition
Indian Ocean Island republic that belonged to the Sinhalese and the Tamils.
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[image] Quebec
Definition
people of this province wanted independence from English-speaking Canada.
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[image] Ontario
Definition
Canada’s most populous province
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[image] Ethnic cleansing
Definition
the Serbs ruthlessly expelled rival ethnic groups from the areas taken by their army.
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[image] atrocities
Definition
cruel actions
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[image] embargo
Definition
a ban on trade
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[image] Chechens
Definition
among the ethnic groups of Russia; declared their independence from Russia in 1994.
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[image] enclave
Definition
a small territory entirely surrounded by another territory
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[image] Ossetians
Definition
minority ethnic group that caused separatist uprisings
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[image] Abkhazians
Definition
minority ethnic group that caused separatist uprisings; declared their region on independent republic in 1994.
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[image] Kurds
Definition
Sunni Muslims who live mostly in Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey
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[image] Sinhalese
Definition
Buddhists who make up 75 percent of Sri Lanka’s population
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[image] Tamils
Definition
Hindus who make up 18 percent of Sri Lanka’s population
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[image] Bloc Quebecois
Definition
the Quebec separatist party
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[image] Mediterranean Europe
Definition
made great strides in political and economic development from the 1970s to the 1990s
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[image] dictatorships
Definition
fell in Spain and Portugal
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[image] democracies
Definition
arose in Spain and Portugal
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[image] economic recession
Definition
hurt the Mediterranean countries
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[image] Spain
Definition
entered a new era of democracy in the 1970s guided by Juan Carlos I
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[image] Portugal
Definition
dictatorship ended with a military coup in 1974; two years later the nation held its first free elections in 50 years
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[image] Great Britain
Definition
economic woes continued under Labour governments during the 1970s
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[image] France
Definition
enjoyed political stability from the 1970s to the 1990s
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[image] Italy
Definition

plagued with a variety of economic, political, and social problems

Term
[image] Populists
Definition
Christian Democrats
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[image] Christian Democrats
Definition
controlled Italy's government during the late 1980s and the early 1990s
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[image] leftist parties
Definition

consisted of Communists and Socialists who suffered from policy disputes and political scandals

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[image] Basques
Definition
made terrorist attacks on Spain
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[image] Greece
Definition
democracy was restored in 1947; brought into the European Community in 1981
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[image] Common Market

Definition

broadened its activities to include political and financial affairs and became known as the European Community

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[image] Maastricht
Definition
The Netherlands
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[image] the Single European Act
Definition
ended most obstacles to trade among EU members
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[image] The Cold War

Definition

the end of this brought about communism's fall and triumph of democracy

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[image] Bosnian Serbs
Definition
conquered most of Bosnia-Herzegovina with the support of neighboring Serbia and Montenegro
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[image] Bosnian Muslims
Definition
tortured and killed by Bosnian Serbs
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[image] Croats
Definition
tortured and killed by Bosnian Serbs
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[image] Croatia
Definition
completed a land offensive to regain land held by its own Serb minority
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[image] The Dayton Treaty
Definition
signed in Paris to end the Bosnian conflict
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[image] UN Security Council
Definition
responded to the Dayton Treaty by voting to lift the embargo on Serbia
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[image] NATO
Definition
began attacks against positions held by the war criminals and their supporters
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[image] CIS
Definition

collapse of communism caused fierce ethnic hatreds to boil to the surface

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[image] Moscow
Definition
repressed the nationalism of non-Russian ethnic groups
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[image] Ukraine
Definition
reluctant to concede its hard-won independence to a Russian-dominated federation
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[image] Belarussian
Definition
forged a closed union with Russia allowing Russian and Belarussian citizens to move freely between the two countries, own property in either country, and vote in each other's local elections
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[image] Georgia
Definition

faced separatist uprisings by minority ethnic groups

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[image] Central Asian republics
Definition
balanced ties to Russia with new links to Middle Eastern and Western countries
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[image] Reform party

Definition

a conservative group that had strong support

in the western Canadian provinces

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[image] Huti and Tutsi

Definition

fighting broke out between these people in Rwanda and Burundi

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[image] Rwanda and Burundi

Definition
East African republics
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[image] Zaire

Definition
violence from Rwanda and Burundi spilled over
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[image] Democratic Republic of the Congo

Definition

Zaire

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[image] Sierra Leone and Liberia

Definition
contributed to civil wars in West Africa
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