Prepared by students of form 9V

English teacher Iljina N.I.

War Conflicts in modern history

• Wars have been happening between nations long before people started writing down their history. In 20th century Europeans suffered from two world wars, which involved many countries even in the other parts of the world. Hundreds of towns and cities were destroyed. A large number of people including children were killed or wounded during those wars. In the Soviet Union only, the number or victims of the Second World War exceeded twenty million people. That is about 40 per cent of all people killed during the War.

Since the World War ll there has not been a time on our planet without war. People in many countries have been suffering greatly

Afghan War 1979-1989. - Long armed conflict parties: the ruling pro-Soviet leadership of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1987 - Republic of Afghanistan) for military support of Soviet troops in Afghanistan (OKSVA) - on the one hand, and the Mujahideen ("dushmanov"), with sympathizers of the Afghan society, political and financial support of the U.S. and a number of states, including the Islamic world - on the other.

Afghan War

• Total - 13 833. These data first appeared in the newspaper "Pravda" August 17, 1989. In the future, the final figure has increased slightly, presumably due to the dead from the effects of injury and illness after leaving the armed forces. As of January 1, 1999 deadweight loss in the Afghan war (killed, died of wounds, disease and accidents, missing) were evaluated in the following way The Soviet Army -Total - 15 031 people. Medical losses - almost 54 thousand wounded, shell-shocked, traumatized, 416 thousand cases.

• The exact number of people killed in the Afghan war is not known. The most common figure of one million dead, the available estimates range from 670 thousand civilians to 2 million in total. According to researchers from the U.S. war in Afghanistan, Professor M. Kramer: "In the nine years of war were killed or injured more than 2.7 million Afghans (mostly civilians), several million more were in the ranks of the refugees, many of whom have left the country" . The exact division of victims to government soldiers, the Mujahideen and civilians, apparently does not exist.

Losses of the USSR Losses of Afghanistan

Gruzino - yugoosetinsky the conflict.

On August 1 at 9:25, according to the deputy minister of defense of South Ossetia, from the Georgian village Ditsi, border with the Ossetian village Geredvi, two mortar shots on observation post of the Ministry of Defence of South Ossetia were let out, nobody suffered.

In the same day the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation made responsible for a situation aggravation Georgia and declared that reserves the right for use of all available forces and means "in case of the further provocations posing threat to the population of the Republic South Ossetia, to the Russian military contingent deployed in the territory of South Ossetia". In reply to it the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia accused Russia of militaristic rhetoric and intensity forcing with the purpose to frighten off foreign investors from Georgia and to provoke an economic crisis in the country, having specified that "similar statements of the Russian defensive department create conditions for dangerous succession of events“.

• On August 2 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia declared that the Russian frontier guards noted the territory of the village which was in Georgia of Kvesha columns for the purpose of transfer of border of South Ossetia and receiving more convenient strategic positions. According to inhabitants of the village, one of columns was postponed for 500 meters deep into the Georgian territory, cutting peasants from their lands. On August 3 the border management of FSB of the Russian Federation in South Ossetia declared that at Kvesha's village on the road between this village and the South Ossetia village Artsev columns by height to meter really were established, however, according to frontier guards, it not frontier marks, and "the temporary engineering obstacles intended for suppression of uncontrolled movement through border of vehicles". Mission of observers of the European Union in Georgia confirmed that didn't find the evidence of transfer of border in Kveshi. Thus, by data the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia, on August 3 columns were removed by Russian military

• Chechen war took place in the Russian Federation (Chechnya as part Ingushetia, Dagestan and Stavropol Krai). It can be attributed to the political and ethnic conflict.

• The beginning of the Chechen war is entering the Russian armies in Chechnya (11 December 1994). The reason was the desire to get out of Chechens from Russia.

• The Chechen Republic has not been recognized by any of the states. Destroyed homes and villages were not restored, the economy - only criminal. The country began the interwar crisis. Civilian casualties in Chechnya 80 000 people dead.

Chechen war

-Is it possible to prevent war?

-Certainly, it is.

What should people do to prevent wars?• Understand that every

person has the right to liberty, justice and equality.

• Respect the rights of other people.

• We should be tolerant of other cultures religions, ideas and values.

• Always remember that building peace begins with your family, your school and

your relationships with your friends.• We suggest that we should start our

school journal “To be tolerant means”. If you want peace in the world and say “ no “ to war, join us.

Sources• All materials are taken from the site• www.wikipedia.ru • Student’s Book Enjoy English M.Z. Biboletova

The information was collected by:

Harsak Alexandra,

Kuchmiev Alexander,

Kostenko Ekaterina.