CONTEMPORARY HISTORY

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CONTEMPORARY HISTORY
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END OF COLD WAR

• Soviet Union- Mikhail Gorbachev
• Glasnost
• Perestroika
• 1989- announces policy of non-intervention in
  Eastern Europe
• Free elections in Poland and Hungary
• Czechoslovakia and Romania- communist governments
  fall

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GERMANY

• 1989- East Germany has pro-democracy
  demonstrations
• Berlin Wall falls
• Oct. 1990- German reunification

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SOVIET UNION

• 1991- coup attempt
• Dec.- Ukraine votes for independence
• Ukraine, Belarus, and Russia declare end of
  Soviet Union- form Commonwealth of Independent
  States (CIS)
• Gorbachev turns over army to Boris Yeltsin

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CHINA

• May 1989- protests
• June 4- Tiananmen Square
• Protests ended

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PERSIAN GULF WAR

• Aug 1990- Saddam Hussein invades Kuwait
• 1991- Operation Desert Storm
• Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff- Colin Powell
• Sec. of Def.- Richard Cheney
• General- Norman Schwarzkopf
• Weaponry- Smart Bombs

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ELECTION OF 1992

• Rep- George Bush
• Dem- Bill Clinton
• Ind- Ross Perot
• Clinton wins

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ELECTION OF 1996

• 1994- Contract With America
• Dem- Bill Clinton
• Rep- Bob Dole
• Ind- Ross Perot
• Clinton wins

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REGIONAL CONFLICTS

• Yugoslavia- Bosnia clashes between Serbs, Croats,
  and Muslims
• Old Soviet Republics
• India- Pakistan
• Northern Ireland
• Africa
• Middle East

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ELECTION OF 2000

• Rep- George W. Bush
• Dem- Al Gore
• Green- Ralph Nader
• Bush wins

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE

• NAFTA- U.S., Canada, Mexico
• Pacific Rim
• European Union

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TERRORISM

• 1972- Munich Olympics
• 1983- Beirut
• 1986- West Berlin
• 1988- Scotland
• 1993- World Trade Center
• 1995- Oklahoma City
• 1996- Saudi Arabia- TWA 800?

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• 1998- African embassies
• 2000- U.S.S. Cole
• 2001- World Trade Center and Pentagon
• War on Terrorism