1. End of the Cold War
Mr. Doherty / Mrs. T

2. Lyndon B. Johnson Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Commitment of United States troops to Vietnam

3. Richard Nixon Richard Nixon becomes the 37th President.
Détente, Visits to China and Soviet Union

8. Nixon Visits China

9. Nixon Visits Soviet Union

10. Detente
Détente- Policy of reducing the tensions between U.S. and U.S.S.R.

11. Mikhail Gorbachev
Becomes Soviet Leader in 1985.

12. Glasnost
Gorbachev’s policy of speaking out honestly and openly.

19. Communism Declines

20. 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.

21. Breakup of Soviet Union End of Cold War 1991
Gorbachev moves toward democracy.
Allows political parties to form.
Dec 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.

22. 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