glasnost

perestroika

Sandanista

Contra

dismantling of nuclear weapons

freedom of the press

increasing the size of a nation

reducing national debt

the fall of communism

the fall of capitalism

the end of the Vietnam War

the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis

Attempted to re-establish communism

Break away from Soviet Union and become independent

Establish their own communist government

Change their economic system to the command economy system

Cuba

Jamaica

Tahiti

Grenada

used earnings from weapons sales to Iran to fund the Contras

paid the Contras to release Americans being held hostage in Iran

secretly hired Iranian agents to fight against the Contras

hired Lebanese agents to rescue Iranians being held by the Contras.

The U.S was bombed by Saudi Arabia

Iraq invaded Kuwait hoping to have control of the oil

The Stock Market crashed

The Japanese bombed North Korea

Ayatollah Khomeini

Saddam Hussein

George H.W. Bush

Adolf Hitler

With the help of a United Nations coalition the US defeated the enemy.

The US used nuclear weapons to clear out Saudi Arabian forces.

With the best equipment money can buy the US defeated the enemy.

Saudi Arabia convinced Iraq and Iran to leave Kuwait.