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Ethnic Violence Homework
Use the PP and the internet to answer the following questions.
Ethiopia and Eritrea:
1. During what years was there a civil war in which Eritreans fought for independence from Ethiopia? What was
the outcome of the war?
2. Why did war flare up again in 1998?
Sudan:
1. What are the two sides in the Civil War that has raged since the 1980s?
2. Describe Sudanese laws to segregate the sexes:
3. According to estimates, how many have died in the conflict? How many refugees?
Somalia:
1. How many clans or ethnic groups does Somalia have?
2. When the government collapsed the clans broke out in warfare to gain power. By 1992, how many had died
from warfare or famine?
3. What was the U.S. reaction?
4. What were the events depicted in Black Hawk Dawn?
5. What happened after Mogadishu? (In regards to U.S. involvement)
Lebanon:
1. What is Lebanon’s religious breakdown?
2. Who is Hezbollah?
3. Civil war broke out in 1975. What happened to U.S. marines who were sent in to help restore peace?
S. Asia (Pakistan, India, Bangladesh)
1. In what unusual way was S. Asia divided when India ended its colonial rule in 1947?
2. The people living in India were predominantly ________________ and the people living in the two Pakistans
were predominantly ____________________.
3. Since the divide, India and Pakistan have had a border dispute over the region of __________________ .
4. East Pakistan became the independent state of ________________
in ____________.
5. Within modern day India religious unrest continues with India’s _______
occupy the state of _____________________.
million Sikhs who
Sri Lanka:
1. Fighting in Sri Lanka has taken place since __________
have died.
and an estimated _______________
2. The Sinhalese make up _____ % of the population. They occupy the __________
and practice the religion of ____________________
.
regions of the island
3. The Tamils make up _______ % of the population. They occupy the _____________ region of the island and
practice the religion of ____________________.
4. Why do the two groups not get along?
The creation and destruction of Yugoslavia:
1. How did ethnic conflict in the Balkan Peninsula spark WW I in 1914?
2. Yugoslavia was created from the Austro-Hungarian Empire after WW I. The 5 major ethnic groups that were
brought together into Yugoslavia included:
3. Different ethnicities were brought together under a Yugoslav identity under the strong leadership of
Communist, ____________________ who governed the country from _______ until ________. Yugoslavia
splintered in the 1990s into the independent nations of : (list 4)
4. What was the ethnic breakdown of the newly independent Bosnia and Herzegovina? How and why did the
Serbs and Croats in this area engage in ethnic cleansing?
5. What ahs the term “Balkanization” come to mean?
Rwanda and Burundi:
1. Who were the 2 ethnic groups who fought in Rwanda and Burundi?
2. How did German and Belgian colonial administrators reinforce the differences between the two groups?
3. How many are estimated to have died in the genocide in Rwanda and Burundi?
Print out a world map and label all of the following countries:
Sudan
Somalia
Lebanon
India, Pakistan, Bangladesh
Sri Lanka
Former Yugoslavia
Rwanda and Burundi