Abeka World History Appendix Quiz DD
Chechnya
Yeltsin sent 40,000 Russian troops t the dissident republic of __________ in the Caucasus Mountains to brutally crush a Chechen independence movement
SWAPO
a Marxist terrorists group; official government of Namibia
managed capitalism
a coalition of private industry and government
Four Modernizations
aimed at improvements in industry, technology, and agriculture
Kosovo
an autonomous region within Serbia mainly populated by Albanians
Vladimir Putin
appointed by Yeltsin to be his successor
Namibia
became independent of South Africa in 1990
ethnic cleansing
better phrase meaning "genocide"
Chunnel
31-mile-long tunnel beneath the English Channel which linked France and Great Britain
Sudan
Africa's largest country where the Islamic government of the north waged a war of persecution against the Christian and animist Nubian tribes of the south
Gordon Brown
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer; succeeded Tony Blair and continued to face problems surrounding terrorism and whether or not Great Britain would adopt the European Union treaty
Kim Il Sung
Communist dictator of North Korea
Raul Castro
Fidel Castro's brother who took over as president of Cuba
Rwanda and Zaire
Huttu VS Tutsi
Kim Jong Un
Kim Jong Il's son; successor of the rogue nation
South African Communist Party
SACP
South West Africa People's Organization
SWAPO
Milosevic
Serbian president who urged the Bosnian Serbs to end hostilities
Mitterand
Socialist President in France; 14 year reign
Somalia
country where civil war broke out; rival Muslim VS Marxist warlords
Liberia
country with a series of shaky cease-fire agreements which gave some respite from the violence
Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina
declaring independence
Angela Merkel
first woman chancellor in Germany's history
Nelson Mandela
head of the African National Congress; first black president of Africa
Kohl
longest-ruling leader in Germany's postwar history
Sarkozy
noted for his conservative and pro-American views
European Union
second name for the EEC
Dmitri Medvedev
selected by Putin to follow him in office
Maastricht Treaty
set in motion a plan to form a European central bank with a single, unified currency for all members of the European Economic Community by January 1, 1999
Chirac
succeeded Mitterand; representative of a conservative party coalition
Kim Jong Il
successor of North Korea; ruler when North Korea became the only Communist dynasty
Sarajevo
the Muslim capital of Bosnia
Ruth Perry
the first woman head of state in Africa; leader of Liberia
Tony Blair
the longest-ruling Labour prime minister
Dayton Peace Accords
the various factions later met at a peace conference at a US Air Force bas in Dayton, Ohio, resulting in the ____________________________.