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.