HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 68: Yitzhak Rabin, Boris Yeltsin, Balkan Wars
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The eu became a unified market of 15 nations. Grew to include 27 nations by 2007 including poland, bulgaria, and romania. Under boris yeltsin, russia struggled to reform its economy. Relations with u. s. were strained by russia"s brutal repression of the civil war in. Chechnya, by nato"s admittance in 1999 of czech republic, hungary, and. Poland, and by russia"s support of serbia in the balkan wars. Serbian dictator, slobodan milosevic carried armed conflicts to suppress independence in yugoslav provinces. Hundreds of thousands were killed (many muslims) by ethnic cleansing . Nato used bombing, diplomacy, and troops to stop the bloodshed in bosnia (1995) and kosovo in 1999. Balkan wars= most troubling european conflict since wwii. Growing nuclear concern with n. korea increasing nuclear power and india and. N. korea agreed to stop nuke program with clinton administration negotiations, but secretly started again in 1995, u. s. est. diplomatic relations with the u. s.
