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Content: reduction of nuclear arms; the ending of the soviet-afghani war
in 1991, boris yeltsin emerged as head of what major soviet republic
russia
the former soviet union gave way to the
commonwealth of independent states
what were concerns within the former soviet union
economic coordination; relationships between the former soviet states; control of nuclear weapons
soviet withdrawal from afghanistan
1988
collapse of soviet union and warsaw pact regimes
1989-1990
iraqi invasion of kuwait
1990
breakup of soviet union
1991
NAFTA inaugurated
1992
mass genocide in rwanda
1994
serbian assault on albanians in kosovo
1998
US and UK bring down sadam hussein's government in iraq
2003
negotiated in 1979 US president carter encountered resistance in US senate
strategic arms limitation agreement (SALT)
denounced the soviet union as an "evil empire", announced massive increase in US defense spending-conservatives accepted a growing budget deficit in favor of new military outlays
ronald reagan
assisted anit-communism anywhere and was followed by an invasion of a small, marxist controlled grenada and support for anti marxist military action in central america
reagan doctrine
USSR premier after 1985; renewed attacks on stalinism; urged reduction in nuclear armament; proclaimed policies of glasnost and perestroika
mikhail gorbachev
policy of openness or political liberation in soviet union put forward by gorbachev in the late 1980s
glasnost
policy of gorbachev calling for economic restructuring; more leeway for private ownership and decentralized control in industry and agriculture
perestroika
russian leader who stood up to coup attempt in 1991 that would have displaced gorbachev; president of the russian republic following dissolution of soviet union
boris yeltsin
won tentative agreement from most of the now independent republics- tensions surfaced about economic coordination amid dismantling of state controls
commonwealth of independent states
muslim region which fought a bitter civil war within soviet union
chechnya
new president named in 1999, who vowed to clean up corruption and install more effective government controls over separate provinces
vladimir putin
1991 war led by US and various european and middle eastern allies, against iraqi occupation of kuwait. the war led to iraqi war withdrawal and a long confrontation with iraq about armaments and political regime
persian gulf war
united states became the only world power after the cold war;