Post Cold War 1990s

USSR dissolves 1991

Boris Yeltsin elected

"shock therapy"

Ethiopia and Somalia abandoned by world powers

AIDS infects 6 million

Centralized government control over economic
matters

Stalemate between the IRA and the
British security forces

Belfast Agreement of 1998

US tried to help with negotiations and failed both
times which caused violence

Iraq and Iran could not come to peace terms

Iraq's brash requests alarmed Arab states

The socialist republic ceased to exist

Slovenia and Croatia declared independence

US began a manhunt for somalian warllord

Safe Havens for Iraqi Kurds

US intervened in Haiti but did not accomplish the
goals of eliminating poverty and helping democracy

China enters WTO

Most important trading country in the world

World trade organization and NATO attempt to
help create free trade

China becomes most important export country

Economically united Europe becomes the largest
trading market