The Rwandan Genocide was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi and moderate Hutu in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority. The genocide took place in the context of a conflict ongoing since 1990 between the Hutu-led government and the Rwandan Patriotic Front, which was largely composed of Tutsi refugees whose families had fled to Uganda following earlier waves of Hutu violence against the Tutsi. Among the broader Hutu populace, the RPF military campaign had also intensified support for the so-called "Hutu Power" ideology, which portrayed the RPF as an alien force intent on reinstating the Tutsi monarchy and enslaving the Hutus: a prospect which must be resisted at all costs. Genocidal killings began the following day:
The Cold War was the tense relationship between the United States (and its allies) and the Soviet Union (USSR) (and its allies) between the end of World War II and the demise of the Soviet Union. Even before the war started, they disliked Germany's ideology and policies but they traded with Germany, and the Soviet Union continued to do so after the Battle of France. While they were allies, the USSR and its western allies (the United States and Great Britain) still did not agree with each other, in terms of government, but both thought that it was more important to work together fighting against Germany and its allies.
The 1977 Moscow bombings were a series of three bombings in Moscow committed on January 8, 1977. No one ever claimed responsibility for the bombing, though three members of an Armenian nationalist organization were ultimately executed for it after a secret trial following a KGB investigation.On January 8, 1977 three explosive devices detonated in Moscow.
The first bomb went off at 17:33 on a crowded train between the Izmailovskaya and Pervomaiskaya stations of the Moscow Metro. At 18:05, a second bomb detonated inside the grocery store close to KGB headquarters. Five minutes later the third bomb exploded near yet another grocery store on the 25th of October Street, just a few hundred meters away from Soviet Communist Party headquarters. On February 8, 1977, Izvestia, an official newspaper of the Soviet government, reported that the attacks had resulted in seven deaths and thirty-seven injuries.