Search: GO MILESTONES 1989–1992 1989–1992: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush The End of Apartheid Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), 1989 Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989 The Collapse of the Soviet Union The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1990–1992...
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Search: GO MILESTONES 1989–1992 1989–1992: The Presidency of George H.W. Bush The End of Apartheid Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), 1989 Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1989 The Collapse of the Soviet Union The Breakup of Yugoslavia, 1990–1992 Tiananmen Square, 1989 The Gulf War, 1991 The Madrid Conference, 1991 Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties, 1991 and 1993 Boris Yeltsin makes a speech from atop a tank in front of the Russian parliament building in Moscow, U.S.S.R., Monday, Aug. 19, 1991. (AP Photo) MILESTONES: 1989–1992 The Collapse of the Soviet Union After his inauguration in January 1989, George H.W. Bush did not automatically follow the policy of his predecessor, Ronald Reagan, in dealing with Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. Instead, he ordered a strategic policy reevaluation in order to establish his own plan and methods for dealing with the Soviet Union and arms control. Conditions in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, however, changed rapidly. Gorbach
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