Chapter 30 - West & World Since 1989 Flashcards
1975 Forum of governments of worlds eight wealthiest countries France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Canada, and Russia meeting in effort to coordinate economic policies & economic problems caused by example increasing oil prices
The G-8
1991 agreement among member states of the European Union to expand cooperation on social, foreign, judicial, and security matters and adopted a timetable for common economic policies
Maastricht Agreement
New name for the European community after the Maastricht Agreement of 1991 as of 2008 it consisted of 27 member countries
European Union
Common currency launched by European Union in 1999 and 2002 to eliminate the cost of currency exchange and boost trade and economic interaction
Euro
Effort through forced relocation or even mass killing to remove an unwanted ethnic group from a particular geographic area
tactic implemented by Yugoslavian ruler Slobodan Milosevic to unite all serves
Ethnic Clensing
Serbs viewed as cradle of their nationhood
region in southeastern Europe in antiquity, the Dordanian Kingdom and later Roman providence of Dardania located in this region part of Serbia in Middle Ages
Kosovo
Informal use for the whole country
relating to eponymous region of Bosnia and Herzegovina encompasses 80% of country in the north
massacre of 8000 Muslim men by Bosnian Serbs
Bosnia
Large city Square and center of Beijing, China
protests here known as June 4 Incident in Chinese where student led demonstrations in Beijing - exposing deep splits within China’s political leadership, leaders ordered martial law
Tiananmen Square
Russian politician, first president of Russian Federation
put an end to the USSR
Boris Yeltsin
A nation in the Northern Caucuses that fought against foreign rule continually since 15th century
Chechnya
Pres. of Russia since 2012
16 years in the KGB
credited for overseeing a return of political stability and economic progress to Russia
Ending crisis in 1990s
Emerged in 1999 to become Russia’s dominant political leader
Vladimir Putin
Established as a specialized agency of United Nations in 1948 serves as the coordinating authority on international public health
headquarters in Geneva Switzerland
World Health Organization (WHO)
Growing from a multilateral trade agreement in 1947 it sought, with mixed success, to promote freer trade throughout the world
by early 21st-century meetings tended to draw demonstrations by anti-globalization activist
World Trade Organization (WTO)
An economic inequality between groups, broadly construed in terms of access to, use of, or knowledge of information and communication technologies
divide inside countries can refer to inequalities between individuals, households, businesses, and geographic areas at different socioeconomic and other demographic levels
Digital Divide
Term for post 1920s movements starting with Muslim Brotherhood, movements practiced unprecedented extremism, believed Western civilization corrupt, evil, want to dismantle it
Radical Islam
