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| a plan used to help the Soviet Union rebuild its economic and political system on a democratic, free enterprise model |
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| the communists had begun to lose control of Eastern Europe |
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| the people from here closely monitored events in Poland, where the Solidarity movement was again on the rise |
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| when free elections here brought Solidarity to power in there parliament, and the Soviet troops did nothing, the Hungarians began to tear down the fences and dismantle the mine fields that seperated them from Austria |
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| by september 1989, thousands of ____________ were fleeing Communist oppression, reaching West Germany by way of sympathic supports in Czechoslavakia and Hungary |
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| Czech Rebulic and Slovakia |
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| in 1993, Czechoslovakia split into two independent countries |
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| was opened on November 9, 1989 |
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| East and West Germany were officially reunited |
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| Communism was overthrown in Romania, resulting in the execution of this cruel dictator |
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| a million university students gathered here in Bejing, China in a great demonstration for freedom |
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| President of the Russian Republic, led resistance against the coup |
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| Commonwealth of Independent States(CIS) |
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| In 1991, the most of the former Soviet republics had banded together to form _______________ and the Soviet Union has ceased to exist as a nation |
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| dictator of Iraq, invaded the tiny, oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait |
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| dictator of Iraq, invaded the tiny, oil-rich kingdom of Kuwait |
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| immediately began preparations to protect the other Arab nations, repulse the Iraqi threat, and liberate Kuwait |
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| began on Jan. 16, 1991 as UN forces took the offensive and began round-the-clock bombing of Iraqi troop positions and headwuarters |
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| Bush placed him Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, in command of operation desert storm |
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| General Norman Schwarzkopf |
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| he was appointed to lead the troops into combat |
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| is a violent act committed by a person or group that is meant to make others cower in fear, usually for political or religious purposes |
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