Abeka World History Appendix Quiz DD

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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 ____________________________.


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