Chapter 31: Revolution, Rebuilding, and New Challenges

Overview:

-->Decline of communism in Eastern Europe
-->Revolutions of 1989
-->Changes in Europe in the 1990s
-->Genocide
-->Population decline
-->Immigration growth
-->Human rights issues
-->Al-Qaeda's terrorist attack on Sept. 11, 2001
-->The European Union
-->"West Divided" & the war in Iraq

Debate:
We recently had a class debate about the EU's effectivity. While the effectivity of our debate itself is arguable, the fact that the EU has become extremely prominent in world politics is not. We watched a movie earlier last week that showed a plethora of reasons and proof that Europeans dislike Americans, and ways that the EU is choosing to stand up to the U.S. in world affairs.