1. Important Events in the 1990’s and 2000’s

2. Boris Yeltsin

4. What was the problem with ending Russia’s Communist system? Widespread Corruption Few Prospered Economic Collapse

5. Vladimir Putin

6. Chechnya- Islamic Province

7. Terror in Moscow 2002 Chechnyan Rebels took a theater of people hostage. Demands- remove Russian troops from Chechnya.

8. Chechnyan Muslims Extremists capture school 1,200 hostages 330 killed

10. Civil War in Yugoslavia (Pg.1014) Why?

11. Serbs pursue an ethnic cleansing policy Led by Slobodan Milosevic, killing Bosnian Muslims

12. Sarajevo Bombed NATO Intervened

13. Kosovo- last province affected by the war (1998-1999)

16. 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?

17. Bombings of London by Al Qaeda

19. Bombing of Madrid 2004

20. The 21 st 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.