Lesson 4 A New Era in Foreign Policy

Manuel Noriega

a former Panamanian military officer who gained control of the army in 1983, becoming the dominate leader in Panama.

Tiananmen Square

site in Beijing where Chinese students' prodemocracy protests were put down by the Chinese government in 1989

Apartheid

political system of strict segregation by race in South Africa

Nelson Mandela

the son of a chief of the African Tembu people, became the first black president of South Africa in 1994.

Divested

to take away or rid oneself of

Operation Desert Storm

1991 American-led attack on Iraqi forces after Iraq refused to withdraw its troops from Kuwait

William Jefferson Clinton

became the 42nd president of the United States in 1993 at the age of 46" Óthe first "boomer" President.

H. Ross Perot

is a self-made billionaire who founded Electronic Data Systems in 1962.

Ethnic Cleansing

systematic effort to purge a society of an ethnic group through murder or deportation

Al-Qaeda

terrorist group established by Osama bin Laden to rid Muslim countries of Western influence.