For decades comprising years 9. For the band, see 1. The 1. 99. 0s ('9. Movements such as grunge, the rave scene and hip hop spread around the world to young people during that decade, aided by then- new technology such as cable television and the World Wide Web. In the absence of world communism which collapsed in the first two years of the decade the 1. Europe. The dot- com bubble of 1. Signs of any resolution of tensions between Israel and the Arab world remained elusive despite the progress of the Oslo Accords, though The Troubles in Northern Ireland came to a standstill in 1.
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Good Friday Agreement after 3. President Saddam Hussein accused Kuwait of flooding the market with oil and driving down prices. As a result, on 2 August 1. Iraqi forces invaded and conquered Kuwait. The UN immediately condemned the action, and a coalition force led by the United States was sent to the Persian Gulf.
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Aerial bombing of Iraq began in January 1. Gulf War), and a month later, the UN forces drove the Iraqi army from Kuwait in just four days. In the aftermath of the war, the Kurds in the north of Iraq and the Shiites in the south rose up in revolt, and Saddam Hussein barely managed to hold onto power. Until the US invasion in 2. Iraq was cut off from much of the world. The Chechen wars break out in the 1. The Kargil War (1.
A month later the Kargil War with India results in a political fiasco for Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, followed by a Pakistani military withdrawal to the Line of Control. The incident leads to a military coup in October, in which Sharif is ousted by Army Chief. Pervez Musharraf.
This conflict remains the only war fought between two declared nuclear powers. The Kosovo War (1. After weeks of bombing, Yugoslavia submits to NATO's demands and NATO forces occupy Kosovo and later UN peacekeeping forces to take control of Kosovo. Estimates put the death toll of the Rwandan Genocide as high as 8. The Rwandan Genocide .
Over the course of approximately 1. It resulted in serious criticism of the United Nations and major countries for failing to stop the genocide.
In Algeria a long period of violence in the north African country starts by the cancellation of the first ever held democratic elections by a group of high- ranking army officers. The Ethiopian Civil War ends in 1. The end of the war coincides with the establishment of a coalition government of various factions. Oka Crisis takes place in 1.
Mohawk nation (North American indigenous peoples in Canada), and the Canadian military over a dispute involving land held via treaty to the Mohawk people. A large number of the Zapatista indigenous people of Mexico join the Zapatista Army of National Liberation that begins armed conflict with the Mexican government in 1. The Taliban seize control of Afghanistan in 1. The 1. 99. 2 Los Angeles riots occurred, with 5.
The riots were a result of the state court acquittal of three White and one Hispanic L. A. Army chief Pervez Musharraf takes control of government as Prime Minister of Pakistan; he would dominate Pakistan's political leadership for nine years. The Somali Civil War (1. Bombing suspect Timothy Mc.
Veigh claimed he bombed the building in retaliation for the 1. Waco massacre. After the bombings of United States embassies in Kenya and Tanzania by Al- Qaeda militants, United States naval military forces launch cruise missile attacks against Al- Qaeda bases in Afghanistan in 1. The Omagh bombing in Omagh, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland which killed 2.
Ahmed Ressam, an Islamist militant associated with Al- Qaeda is arrested when attempting to cross from Canada to the United States at the Canada- United States border on 1. December 1. 99. 9; it is discovered that he intended to bomb Los Angeles International Airport during millennium celebrations.
This is the first major attempted terrorist attack by Al Qaeda on United States soil since the 1. World Trade Center bombing and marked the beginning of a series of attempted terrorist attacks by Al Qaeda against the United States that would continue into the 2. On 1. 8 July 1. 99. Argentina's Jewish community plants a car- bomb in the AMIA Headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina killing 8. Argentine historyon 1. June 1. 99. 6, the IRA set off a bomb in Manchester, England. The bomb, placed in a van on Corporation Street in the city centre, targeted the city's infrastructure and economy and caused widespread damage, estimated by insurers at .
Two hundred and twelve people were injured, but there were no fatalities. Decolonization and independence.
Walvis Bay, initially retained by South Africa, joins Namibia in 1. The republics of Croatia, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia declared independence from Yugoslavia. Dissolution of Czechoslovakia into Czech Republic and Slovakia (1. Eritrea gains independence from Ethiopia (1. Palau gains independence from the United Nations Trusteeship Council. United Kingdom hands sovereignty of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China on 1 July 1.
East Timor breaks away from Indonesian control in 1. Suharto from power, ending a 2. The UN deploys a peace keeping force, spearheaded by the Australian armed forces. The United States deploys police officers to serve with the International Police element, to help train and equip an East Timorese police force. Portugal hands sovereignty of Macau to the People's Republic of China on 2.
December 1. 99. 9. Prominent political events.
Market reforms made great changes to the economies of socialist countries like China and Vietnam. The ethnic tensions and violence in the former Yugoslavia during the 1. South Africa. This would resolve with the end of Apartheid in South Africa in 1. Civil Rights era of the 2. Nelson Mandela is elected President of South Africa in 1.
President in South African history ending a long legacy of apartheid white- rule in the country. North America. The Liberal Party of Canada is the only genuine national political party that remains while the regionally based parties such as the Quebec- based Bloc Qu. In 1. 99. 5, during a referendum on Quebec sovereignty, Quebec voters narrowly reject the vote for independence. The 1. 99. 5 Quebec referendum on sovereignty is held in the predominantly francophone province of Quebec in Canada, a majority anglophone country.
If accepted Quebec would become an independent country with an economic association with Canada. The proposal is narrowly rejected by Quebec's voters by 5.
United States. After the United States House of Representatives impeached Clinton on 1. December 1. 99. 8 for perjury under oath, following an investigation by federal prosecutor Kenneth Starr, the Senate acquitted Clinton of the charges on 1.
February 1. 99. 9 and he finished his second term. California voters passed Proposition 2. The debate over legalization of marijuana in the United States goes on today. The enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on 1 January 1. North American free trade zone consisting of Canada, Mexico, and the United States. Middle East. With the peace among all fractions in Lebanon, rebuilding Lebanon and the capital, Beirut, started.
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestinian Prime Minister Yasser Arafat agree to the Peace Process at the culmination of the Oslo Accords, negotiated by the United States President. Bill Clinton on 1. September 1. 99. 3. By signing the Oslo accords, the Palestine Liberation Organization recognize Israel's right to exist, while Israel permitted the creation of an autonomous Palestinian National Authority consisting of the Gaza Strip and West Bank which was implemented in 1. Israeli military forces withdraw from the Palestinian territories in compliance with the accord, which marked the end of the First Intifada (a period of violence between Palestinian Arab militants and Israeli armed forces from 1.
The Palestinian National Authority is created in 1. Oslo Accords, giving Palestinian Arab people official autonomy over the Gaza Strip and West Bank, though not official independence from Israel.
In 1. 99. 4, a peace treaty is signed between Israel and Jordan. Far East. He remained in the cabinet as Senior Minister. In July 1. 99. 4, North Korean leader Kim Il- sung died, having ruled the country since its founding in 1. His son Kim Jong- il succeeded him, taking over a nation on the brink of complete economic collapse.
Famine caused a great number of deaths in the late '9. North Korea would gain a reputation for being a large source of money laundering, counterfeiting, and weapons proliferation. The country's ability to produce and sell nuclear weapons became a focus of concern in the international community. Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy in Burma wins a majority of seats in the first free elections in 3. Burmese military junta refuses to relinquish power, beginning an ongoing peaceful struggle throughout the 1. Aung San Suu Kyi and her supporters to demand the end of military rule in Burma. North Yemen and South Yemen merge to form Yemen in 1.
In the Philippines two Presidents were elected, Fidel V. Ramos in 1. 99. 2 and Joseph Estrada in 1. The improvement in relations between the countries of NATO and the former members of the Warsaw Pact ended the Cold War both in Europe and other parts of the world. German reunification . People who were brought up in a socialist culture became integrated with those living in capitalist western Germany. Margaret Thatcher who had been the United Kingdom's Prime Minister since 1. Prime Minister on 2.
November 1. 99. 0 after being challenged for the leadership of the Conservative Party by Michael Heseltine because of widespread opposition to the introduction of the controversial Community Charge and the fact that her key allies such as Nigel Lawson and Geoffrey Howe resigned over the deeply sensitive issues of the Maastricht Treaty and Margaret Thatcher's resistance to Britain joining the European Exchange Rate Mechanism. Less than two years later on the infamous Black Wednesday of September 1.
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