OPERATION DESERT STORM
In 1990 Iraq invaded, with the intention of annexing, Kuwait because of longstanding conflict between the two nations in which Iraq believed Kuwait was its property. The entire world was against this invasion. The United Nations created a coalition of troops from Saudi Arabia and The United States which pursued the goal of destroying the Iraqi forces. The United Nations then created a cease fire, the controversies over enforcing this cease fire are what caused the 2003 war in Iraq.
WORLD TRADE CENTRE BOMBING
In 1993 there was a plot devised to blow up the World Trade Centre in an effort to curve US support for Israel. They parked a truck full of explosives in a parking garage under the World Trade Centre with the intention to decimate the support to the bottom of the first World Trade Centre causing it to fall onto and knock the second one. Fortunately, the first tower did not fall over. They were later caught and charged with conspiracy and transporting explosives across state lines.
NELSON MANDELA
Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa in 1994 and was the first black president of the country, ending the apartheid rule of the white supremacists in South Africa. This is mainly what his presidency focused on as well, dismantling the institution of racism and inequality throughout South Africa.
RWANDA
In 1994 the world watched in awe as the Hutu government murdered a countless number of Tutsi and Hutu people as the West did nothing. Majority of the murders were committed with blades so the rivers literally ran red with blood.
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