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| Genocide | Deliberate destruction of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group. |
| Slobodan Milosevic | Serbian leader who was responsible for genocide of Muslims in Bosnia and Kosovo |
| Ethnic cleansing | imprisonment, expulsion, or killing of members of an ethnic minority by a majority to achieve ethnic homogeneity |
| Khmer Rogue | Communist Party of Cambodia killed 1.5 million people |
| Pol Pot | leader of Khmer Rouge |
| Rwanda | civil war between Tutsis and Hutus |
| Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) | rebels in Northern Uganda-accused of widespread human rights violations |
| Darfur | region of western Sudan. Current site genocide |
| (CIS )Commonwealth of Independent States | Organization of former Soviet Republics after the fall of the Soviet Union for cooperation in trade and defense. |
| Shock therapy | Yeltsin's policy of economic reform including privatization |
| Apartheid | legal racial segregation in South Africa. |
| ANC-African national Congress | Party of Nelson Mandela fought to end Apartheid |
| Nelson Mandela | Leader of non-violent movement to end apartheid in South Africa |
| West bank and Gaza Strip | Taken by Israel during the six day war, proposed area for a Palestinian state |
| Jerusalem | Place where 3 major religions began -Judaism, Christianity, Islam |
| Yasser Arafat | Leader of the PLO- Organized Arab resistance to Israeli occupation of Palestine |
| Zionists | believed that the Jewish people have been given the land of Israel by God and should be entitled to a homeland there |
| PLO-Palestine Liberation Organization | Politial organization of displaced Palestinian Arabs that fought to establish a Palestinian state |
| Balfour Declaration | formal statement of policy by the British government stating support for a Jewish State |
| Kashmir | area claimed by both India and Pakistan-source of conflict |
