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This is the common name used to reference the partition of Czechoslovakia into Czech and Slovak states.
What is the Velvet Divorce?
This South African policy stratified society along racial lines with full citizenship rights for Caucasians and progressively less rights for darker skinned people, with Africans enjoying very limited rights at all.
What was Apartheid?
This political party dominated mexico for 83 consecutive years before it imploded in the 1990s and finally lost power to Vicente Fox in the year 2000.
What is the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institucional)?
This country developed nuclear weapons and then used them to threaten their neighbors to force the world to donate billions of dollars worth of food aid to them to deal with an internal famine they were suffering.
What did North Korea do in the 1990s?
the Boris Yeltsin's policy of quick transition from Communism to market capitalism that involved mass privatization of state monopolies and elimination of welfare programs.
What was Shock Therapy?
This was the name of the economic pact that existed in Western Europe before the member states expanded its scope to transform it into the EU.
What was the European Economic Community or (EEC)?
This Iraqi leader tried to rebuild an Arab empire around his country which lead to wars with Iran, Kuwait, and eventually also the US & NATO.
Who is Saddam Hussein?
This event led to an economic collapse in Latin America that forced the region to accept IMF mandated Neoliberal reforms and an end to the traditional protectionist mercantilist policies common in the region at the time.
What was the effect of the Debt Crisis?
This country finally becomes a big enough player in the 1990s to begin challenging Japan's technological dominance withe the rise of brands like Daewoo, Goldstar, & Samsung.
What happened in South Korea in the 1990s?
Common term used to reference the extremely wealthy plutocrats that enriched themselves by rigging Russia's privatization process in the 90's and who manipulated the government to enact policies to benefit them instead of the majority of Russians
the Oligarchs
The paramilitary group that conducted the Massacre at Srebrenica belonged to this ethnic group.
What did the Serbian nationalists do at Srebrenica?
This Israeli factional leader led the opposition to his country's peace process with the Palestinians in the 1990s and eventually succeeded in sabotaging and getting elected to become Prime Minister of Israel.
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?
This military operation gone wrong proved that even in the 1990s the US military with all their tech still had trouble handling enemies that used non-conventional combat tactics.
Why is the Battle of Mogadishu / Humanitarian Operation in Somalia important?
This country sparked fears in the US that they may overtake them as the world's top economic power in the 1990s, leading to some tensions between them and the US over their trade dealings.
What happened in Japan in the 1990s?
These are the three baltic republics that chose to sever all their ties with the other former Soviet republics and instead opted to seek closer ties with the West by applying for quick NATO and EU membership. (Name at least two of the three)
Latvia, Estonia & Lithuania
These were the first three Eastern European countries that joined NATO in violation of the Agreement between Gorbachev and the US to not expand the alliance in exchange for allowing reunified Germany to remain within NATO. (Name at least two)
What makes Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic notable new members of NATO?
These two rival Central African tribes were protagonists of the Rwanda-Burundi Genocide, and also two Congo Wars that came afterward.
Who are the Hutus and Tutsis (or Watusi)?
These were two of the richest billionaires the US had during the 1990s
What list includes Bill Gates, Warren Buffet, Sam Walton, John Kluge, Paul Allen, & Larry Ellison?
This policy enacted in China by Deng Xiaoping marks the beginning of China's embracement of globalization and the start of the Chinese economic miracle.
What is China's Open Door Policy?
This was the large free trade zone and loose military alliance created by the former Soviet republics after the dissolution of the USSR.
The CIS or Commonwealth of Independent States.
This is the name given to the policy that grants free movement within the borders of the EU and common border controls with external states for EU member countries
What is the Schengen Zone?
This is the new form of warfare debuted by the US during operation Desert Storm against Iraq in 1991, and relies in overwhelming aerial superiority with stealth fighters, intelligent precision weapons, & real time data & advanced coordination.
What is Information Era Warfare?
This Republican political movement in the US started by Newt Gingrich intended to steer government policy towards the Right by refusing to compromise and relentlessly sabotaging all policies and politicians that didn't completely align with their worldview.
What is the Tea-Party Movement?
this Chinese policy made possible the reincorporation of Hong Kong and Macau to Chinese sovereignty by allowing them to keep their democratic system for forty years.
What is China's One Country Two Systems policy
These were the two countries involved in the Nagorno Karabaj War
Armenia & Azerbaijan