AP World History Chapter 35 The Former Soviet Empire Flashcards
What occurred in several of the new nations after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Ethnic and religious classes.
What risings take place?
The Chechnya rising takes place.
Who conducted low-level warfare over disputed regions claimed by ethnic groups?
Armenia and Azerbaijan.
What country split into two new countries and what were those countries?
Czechoslovakia split into the Czech Republic and Slovakia.
What new countries did Yugoslavia break down into?
Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Montenegro.
Who won the Iraq-Iran war
Iraq.
What deteriorated after the cold war ended?
Israeli relations with the huge Palestinian minority.
Tensions between who escalated?
India and Pakistan.
By 2000 both countries had down what?
Conducted tests of nuclear weapons.
The English government gave what to who?
Limited autonomy to Scottish and Welsh governments.
Who became more tolerant toward who such as the what?
France and Spain became more tolerant toward linguistic minorities such as the Bretons and the Catalans.
What was reduced?
Immigration into several European countries is reduced.
Who fought each other in Rwanda?
The Hutus and the Tutsis.
Violence in Africa frequently involved who?
Heavily armed children, or “toy soldiers.”
