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World history - Chapter 32 Conflicts Divide Nations

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Northern Ireland
Made up of 6 countries north of Ireland that stayed
Good Friday Agreement
After 3 decades of violence, the IRA and Protestant militants signed a peace agreement in 1998
Chechnya
City in Russia where separatists tried to break away from Russian rule in the mid 1990's
multiethnic
Made up of several ethnic groups
Serbs, Montenegrins, and Macedonians
Slobodan Milosevic
Serbian president
Ethnic Cleansing
Killing people from other ethnic groups or forcing them from their homes to create ethnic "pure" areas
Kosovo
Province of Serbia where violent crisis broke out in the 1990's
Where 90% of population were Muslims from Albania
apartheid
Separation of the races
African National Congress (ANC)
main organization that opposed apartheid and led the struggle for majority rule
Sharpville
A black township where police in 1969 gunned down 69 men, women, & children during a peaceful protest
Government then outlawed the ANC
Nelson Mandela
ANC leader forced to go underground
He mobilized your South Africans to peacefully resist apartheid laws
Desmond Tutu
South African bishop who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984 for his nonviolent opposition to apartheid
F.W. de Klerk
South African President who finally outlawed apartheid in 1990
He ended the ban on ANC and freed Nelson Mandela from the work camp prison.
Hutus
The majority group in Rwanda
Tutis
The minority group in Rwanda who had been in leadership
Both groups spoke the same language, but had very different traditions and the two groups did not get along.
Dafur
Western region of the Sudan
Occuppied Territories
Territories Arabs lot to Israel in the 1973 war
Yasir Arafat
Leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organization
intifada
Uprisings by the Palestinians in the Occupied Territories in 1987
Jerusalem
A city sacred to Jews
militia
Armed groups of citizen soldiers who battle one another
Saddam Hussein
Iraqi dictator
No-Fly Zone
Areas set up by the United Nations where no Iraqi aircraft were allowed to fly
Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs)
Nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons intended for war
insurgent
Rebels fighting to undermine a government
Yitzhak Rabin
Israel Prime Minister in 1993 who signed the Oslo Accords with Yasir Arafat
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