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| Russian leader who sent Russian troops into Chechnya |
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| 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 |
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| [image] Alija Izetbegovic |
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| president of Bosnia-Herzegovina |
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| 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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| prime minister who was a firm believer in national unity and opposed Quebec separation. |
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| remembers how to multi-ethnic population lived in harmony |
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| 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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| Central Asia Republic that had peacekeeping forces that were backed by the CIS. |
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| territory of the Chechens located in Southern Russia near the Caspian Sea |
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| claimed ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh; made significant advances and took control of much of the disputed territory. |
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| claimed ownership of Nagorno-Karabakh; Nagorno-Karabakh lies entirely within this enclave. |
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| enclave claimed by Armenia and Azerbaijan |
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| Indian Ocean Island republic that belonged to the Sinhalese and the Tamils. |
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| people of this province wanted independence from English-speaking Canada. |
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| Canada’s most populous province |
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| the Serbs ruthlessly expelled rival ethnic groups from the areas taken by their army. |
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| among the ethnic groups of Russia; declared their independence from Russia in 1994. |
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| a small territory entirely surrounded by another territory |
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| minority ethnic group that caused separatist uprisings |
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| minority ethnic group that caused separatist uprisings; declared their region on independent republic in 1994. |
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| Sunni Muslims who live mostly in Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey |
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| Buddhists who make up 75 percent of Sri Lanka’s population |
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| Hindus who make up 18 percent of Sri Lanka’s population |
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| the Quebec separatist party |
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| [image] Mediterranean Europe |
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| made great strides in political and economic development from the 1970s to the 1990s |
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| fell in Spain and Portugal |
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| arose in Spain and Portugal |
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| [image] economic recession |
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| hurt the Mediterranean countries |
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| entered a new era of democracy in the 1970s guided by Juan Carlos I |
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| 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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| economic woes continued under Labour governments during the 1970s |
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| enjoyed political stability from the 1970s to the 1990s |
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plagued with a variety of economic, political, and social problems |
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| [image] Christian Democrats |
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| controlled Italy's government during the late 1980s and the early 1990s |
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consisted of Communists and Socialists who suffered from policy disputes and political scandals |
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| made terrorist attacks on Spain |
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| democracy was restored in 1947; brought into the European Community in 1981 |
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broadened its activities to include political and financial affairs and became known as the European Community |
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| [image] the Single European Act |
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| ended most obstacles to trade among EU members |
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the end of this brought about communism's fall and triumph of democracy |
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| conquered most of Bosnia-Herzegovina with the support of neighboring Serbia and Montenegro |
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| tortured and killed by Bosnian Serbs |
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| tortured and killed by Bosnian Serbs |
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| completed a land offensive to regain land held by its own Serb minority |
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| [image] The Dayton Treaty |
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| signed in Paris to end the Bosnian conflict |
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| [image] UN Security Council |
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| responded to the Dayton Treaty by voting to lift the embargo on Serbia |
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| began attacks against positions held by the war criminals and their supporters |
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collapse of communism caused fierce ethnic hatreds to boil to the surface |
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| repressed the nationalism of non-Russian ethnic groups |
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| reluctant to concede its hard-won independence to a Russian-dominated federation |
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| 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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faced separatist uprisings by minority ethnic groups |
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| [image] Central Asian republics |
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| balanced ties to Russia with new links to Middle Eastern and Western countries |
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a conservative group that had strong support in the western Canadian provinces |
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fighting broke out between these people in Rwanda and Burundi |
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[image] Rwanda and Burundi |
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| violence from Rwanda and Burundi spilled over |
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[image] Democratic Republic of the Congo |
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[image] Sierra Leone and Liberia |
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| contributed to civil wars in West Africa |
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