The End of the Cold War

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1989

• The End of the Cold War

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Election of 1988
George H.W. Bush
Mike Dukakis
George H.W. Bush Dan Quayle win
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George H.W. Bush
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1989

• What happened?
• Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini passes away (Iran)
• Tiananmen Square (China)
• Eastern Bloc fights for independence
• Poland, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Romania,
  Bulgaria, Hungary
• Why? Glasnost Perestroika
• Dissolution of the Soviet Union
• INF Treaty - Reduction of nuclear arsenals
• USSR to CIS (Commonwealth of Independent States)

Pizza Hut Gorbachev
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Tiananmen Square
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Fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
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Nuclear Arms Reduction