| A | B |
| Ireland | a country that suffered through famine and drought; many people moved away from Ireland during the late 1840s on account of mass starvation; religious and ethnic conflicts have been occurring ever since the 1900s |
| India | another country in which religious and ethnic conflicts have occurred |
| Israel | another nation in which religious and ethnic conflicts have occurred |
| Catholcs and Protestants | two religious groups that war against one another inNorthern Ireland |
| Serbs, Croats, and Muslims | three ethnic groups that war against each other in the Balkans |
| Potato famine | failure of the potato crop in Ireland; major cause of the mass starvation in and migration from Ireland |