AP European History / Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe
9.5 Postwar Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict, and Atrocities
Notes
Ethnic conflict continued: the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s with wars and genocide (Srebrenica, 1995, ethnic cleansing in Bosnia and Kosovo). Separatism (Basque ETA, Northern Ireland's Troubles).
Practice
The Srebrenica massacre (1995) took place during the war in:
Genocide of Bosniak men and boys.
Northern Ireland's "Troubles" were a conflict between:
Ended with the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.
Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s mainly because of:
Ethnic conflict.
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