War & Society
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- Algeria (1954-1962)
- guerillas of the NLF launched attacks in various parts of Algeria, against military installations, police post, warehouses, communication facilities, and utility places
- Dayton Accord
- These accords put an end to the three and a half years of (Bosnian War), one of the armed conflicts in the former Socialist Federative Republic of Yugoslavia.
- Paul Kagame
- current president of Rwanda and the founder of the patriotic front
- Rosie the Riveter
- representing the six million women who manned the manufacturing plants which produced munitions and material during World War II while the men (who traditionally performed this work) were off fighting the war.
- Marshall Plan
- primary plan of the United States for rebuilding the allied countries of Europe and repelling communism after World War II.
- Kristallnacht
- was a massive nationwide pogrom in Germany and Austria on the night of November 9, 1938
- Treaty of Versailles
- 1919) was the peace treaty which officially ended World War I between the Allied and Associated Powers and Germany.
- Khmer Rouge
- was a communist organization that ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.
- Holocaust
- tate-led systematic persecution and genocide of the Jews and other minority groups of Europe and North Africa during World War II by Nazi Germany and its collaborators[1]
- Tutsi
- an ethnic group in Rwanda
- National Security Act of 1947
- realigned and reorganized the United States' armed forces, foreign policy, and Intelligence Community apparatus in the aftermath of World War II.
- Woodrow Wilson
- 28th President of the United States and His first term as president resulted in major legislation including the Federal Reserve System. Reelected in 1916, his second term centered on World War I and his efforts in 1919 to shape the Treaty of Versailles, which was rejected by the Senate.
- UNPROFOR
- United Nations Protections Force
- Srebrenica
- safe haven
- Romeo Dallaire
- served as commander United Nations peacekeeping force in Rwanda between 1993 and 1994, and for trying to stop a war of genocide that was being waged by Hutu extremists against Tutsis and Hutu moderates.