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| show | 1) Foreign aid
2) Humanitarian aid
3) Support for human rights
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| show | George H. W. Bush
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| show | 1) Eastern Europe
2) Soviet Union
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| What 2 beliefs did Eastern Europe adopt after the fall of communism? | show 🗑
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| What European country reunified in late 1990 under a democratic government? | show 🗑
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| show | Soviet Union
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| show | On the Balkan Peninsula in Europe
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| show | Communist
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| What happened to Yugoslavia in the early 1990s? | show 🗑
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| What did 4 of the 6 republics of Yugoslavia do in 1991 and 1992? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) Bosnians
2) Serbs
3) Croats
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| What was the religion of the Bosnians? | show 🗑
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| show | Eastern Orthodox Christians
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| What was the religion of the Croats? | show 🗑
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| What ethnic group did not want Bosnia-Herzegovina to become independent from Yugoslavia? | show 🗑
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| show | Civil war between the Serbs, Croats, and Bosnians
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| show | 1) George H. W. Bush
2) Bill Clinton
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| show | When it became known that the Serbian forces were practicing “ethnic cleansing” against Bosnian Muslims and Croats
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| show | Took them from their homes and put them into refugee camps
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| show | 1) Mass murders of civilians
2) Massacres of Muslim men and boys
3) Existence of concentration camps
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| To what was the Serbian “ethnic cleansing” of Bosnian Muslims compared? | show 🗑
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| show | Intentional killing of an entire racial, religious, or cultural group
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| show | No
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| show | 1) Tried to work through the United Nations
2) Tried to work through NATO
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| show | NATO would enforce peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina
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| show | NATO sent a peacekeeping force of 60,000 troops to the Balkans, including 20,000 Americans
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| show | Kosovo
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| What was the main ethnic group in Kosovo? | show 🗑
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| What did Kosovo want? | show 🗑
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| How did the Serbs respond to Kosovo’s demands for independence? | show 🗑
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| show | Worked through NATO
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| show | Bombed Yugoslavia to stop Serbs’ slaughter of Albanians in Kosovo
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| show | Sent American troops to Kosovo as part of a NATO peacekeeping force
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| Did Kosovo eventually gain independence from Yugoslavia? | show 🗑
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| show | Iraq
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| Who was the dictator of Iraq? | show 🗑
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| What is the major source of wealth in Kuwait? | show 🗑
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| show | President Bush said the Iraqi invasion violated Kuwait’s national sovereignty (right to exist as a separate nation).
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| show | Threaten Saudi Arabia and its oil reserves
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| show | 1) Said the invasion was wrong
2) Imposed economic sanctions or penalties on Iraq
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| What did President Bush put together to oppose the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) Great Britain (United Kingdom)
2) France
3) Soviet Union
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| What was the first phase of Operation Desert Storm? | show 🗑
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| show | A ground attack on Kuwait and Iraq
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| Operation Desert Storm became known as what war? | show 🗑
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| What happened in the Persian Gulf War? | show 🗑
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| show | Persian Gulf War
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| show | 1) Saddam Hussein stayed in power in Iraq.
2) The American-led coalition achieved its goal of freeing Kuwait from Iraqi rule.
3) The coalition restored self-rule to Kuwait’s leaders.
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| show | Free trade
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| What does free trade mean? | show 🗑
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| Why did Presidents Bush and Clinton want to eliminate tariffs? | show 🗑
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| What president persuaded Congress to pass NAFTA? | show 🗑
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| show | North American Free Trade Agreement
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| What was NAFTA? | show 🗑
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| What did NAFTA do? | show 🗑
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| What effect did NAFTA have on trade in North America? | show 🗑
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| What type of jobs did NAFTA opponents fear would be eliminated in the United States if NAFTA became law? | show 🗑
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| What was the main argument used against NAFTA? | show 🗑
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| Why did NAFTA opponents believe American business would move their factories to Mexico? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) Senate ratified the NAFTA Treaty
2) Restored full diplomatic relations with Vietnam
3) Lifted economic sanctions against South Africa, when apartheid ended
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| show | 1) U.S. recognized communist government as the lawful government of Vietnam
2) U.S. exchanged ambassadors with Vietnam
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| What country had a policy of racial apartheid? | show 🗑
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| show | South Africa’s brutal system of racial segregation and discrimination against the nation’s black majority
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| show | Nelson Mandela
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| What was the African National Congress? | show 🗑
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| show | Black majority
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| Who became the new leader of the South African government when apartheid ended? | show 🗑
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| What did Clinton do when apartheid ended? | show 🗑
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| What economic sanctions had the U.S. placed against the Republic of South Africa in 1986? | show 🗑
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| show | 1) Condemn apartheid
2) Pressure the white South African government to repeal its racially discriminatory laws
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