Top 20 Events Post Cold-War By cass28 May 4, 1980 Death of Josip Titio Jan 1, 1989 Slobodan Milosevic Attempts to Form a "Greater Serbia" Nov 17, 1989 Introduction of 10-point Plan for Reunification of Germany Apr 17, 1990 Paris Accord Held Oct 17, 1990 Reunification of Germany Dec 31, 1990 Dissolution of the Eastern Bloc With the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Velvet Revolution, among other causes the communist control of Eastern Europe fell apart. Jan 17, 1991 America Leads UN in Gulf War Jan 17, 1991 Poland and Hungary Begin Capitalist Reforms Jun 1, 1991 Slovenia and Croatia Declare their Independence Aug 16, 1991 Attempted coup by Communist Party Leaders in Russia Aug 17, 1991 Boris Yeltsin's Elected President of Russia Jan 17, 1992 Civil War begins in Bosnia Apr 17, 1992 Francis Fukuyama Claims "The End of History" Jan 1, 1993 Dissolution of Czechoslovakia Feb 7, 1993 European Union Officially Forms Oct 17, 1993 Yeltsin Crushes Parliamentary Mutiny Nov 17, 1995 Peace Treaty ends Bosnian Civil War Jan 1, 1996 Russia's Industry Producing 1/3 Less than in 1991 Jan 1, 1997 Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic Accepted into NATO Mar 1, 2000 Putin Elected President