Important Events

Chapter 29 Review: Important Events

1990s Internet revolution
1990–1991 War in Persian Gulf
1991 Civil war erupts in former Yugoslavia; failed coup by Communist hard-liners in Soviet Union
1992 Soviet Union is dissolved
1993 Toni Morrison wins Nobel Prize for Literature; Czechoslovakia splits into Czech Republic and Slovakia
1994 Nelson Mandela is elected president of South Africa; Russian troops invade Chechnya; European Union is officially formed
1999 European Union introduces the euro; world population reaches six billion
2000 Vladimir Putin becomes president of Russia
2001 September 11 terrorist attacks; United States declares “war against terrorism,” attacks Afghanistan
2003 United States invades Iraq; the West divides on this policy
2004 Ten countries join European Union
2005 Emissions reductions of Kyoto Protocol go into effect
2007 Bulgaria and Romania are admitted to European Union; world economic crisis begins
2009 Barack Obama becomes the first African American president of the United States
2010 China overtakes Japan to become world’s second largest economy
2014 Russia annexes Crimea and sends military assistance to anti-Ukraine forces

Consider three events: Internet revolution (1990s), Soviet Union is dissolved (1992), and European Union is officially formed (1994). How did each of these events help to bring about a more interconnected, globalized world?

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Consider three events: Internet revolution (1990s), Soviet Union is dissolved (1992), and European Union is officially formed (1994). How did each of these events help to bring about a more interconnected, globalized world?