End of the Cold War Ms. Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnson Gulf of Tonkin Resolution Commitment of United States troops to Vietnam
Richard Nixon Richard Nixon becomes the 37th President. Détente, Visits to China and Soviet Union
Nixon Visits China
Nixon Visits Soviet Union
Detente Détente- Policy of reducing the tensions between U.S. and U.S.S.R.
Mikhail Gorbachev Becomes Soviet Leader in 1985.
Glasnost Gorbachev’s policy of speaking out honestly and openly.
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Communism Declines
Communism Falls Poland holds first free election Romania overthrows dictator. Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Albania’s communist gov’t falls. 1990 Germany reunited w/ democracy.
Breakup of Soviet Union End of Cold War 1991 Gorbachev moves toward democracy. Allows political parties to form. Dec. 1991 Gorbachev resigns, and Soviet Union is through. Soviet Union is broken up into 15 separate nations. Russia is the largest and most powerful President is Boris Yeltsin.
Post-Soviet states in alphabetical order: 1. Armenia, 2. Azerbaijan, 3 Post-Soviet states in alphabetical order: 1. Armenia, 2. Azerbaijan, 3. Belarus, 4. Estonia, 5. Georgia, 6. Kazakhstan, 7. Kyrgyzstan, 8. Latvia, 9. Lithuania, 10. Moldova, 11. Russia, 12. Tajikistan, 13. Turkmenistan, 14. Ukraine, 15. Uzbekistan