Important Events in the 1990’s and 2000’s
Boris Yeltsin
What was the problem with ending Russia’s Communist system?
•Widespread Corruption•Few Prospered•Economic Collapse
Vladimir Putin
Chechnya- Islamic Province
Terror in Moscow 2002•Chechnyan Rebels took a theater of
people hostage.•Demands- remove Russian troops
from Chechnya.
Chechnyan Muslims Extremists capture school
•1,200 hostages•330 killed
Civil War in Yugoslavia (Pg.1014)
•Why?
Serbs pursue an ethnic cleansing policy•Led by Slobodan Milosevic, killing
Bosnian Muslims
Sarajevo Bombed•NATO Intervened
Kosovo- last province affected by the war (1998-1999)
Skim 1015-1019•How did Arab Nationalism have an
impact on Europe?•What European countries supported
U.S. invasion of Iraq, who strongly opposed it?
Bombings of London by Al Qaeda
Bombing of Madrid 2004
The 21st century thus far…•Wars between the West and the radical
Islamic extremists of the Middle East will continue to dictate the way history is presented.