1. Iran

3. Mohammed Mossadeq

4. Muhammad Reza-Shah Pahlavi

5. Ayatollah Khomeini

6. 1979 Revolution – US Embassy

9. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

10. Afghanistan: A Soviet Vietnam

12. When? 1979-1989 Soviet-Afghan War

13. Why? 1.The new communist regime in Afghanistan was threatened with overthrow? 2.The Afghan mujahedin (muslim holy warriors) might spread their ideas to other Soviet Muslim republics. 3.Soviets wanted control of the Strait of Hormuz through which passes much of the world’s oil.

14. Similar to Vietnam 120,000 Soviet troops sent 15,000 died No end in sight Morale and drug problems Government told people little Afghans received arms from US Soviets pull out in 1989

15. Why did communism collapse? Doomed from the start? (No incentive for new ideas) Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms –Last Soviet leader –Glasnost: greater freedom of speech –Perestroika: Economic restructuring –Soviet Union collapsed

17. Boris Yeltsin Won Russian election 1 st President of Russia Brought democracy back to Russia…for awhile

18. Vladimir Putin

19. Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)