Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

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Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe

• Gorbachevs policy was not to intervene
• 1988-9Poland non-communist government
• 1989Czechoslovakiaended communist government
• 1989Berlin Wall dismantled
• 1990East West Germany reunited
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Berlin Wall
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Fall of Wall
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End of Soviet Union

• Summer 1991Baltic republics indep.Latvia,
  Lithuania, Estonia
• Dec. 1991USSR dissolvedreplaced w/ Independent
  States
• Communist party terminated
• 1992Elected President Boris Yeltsin (of Russian
  Republic)

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