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NATO-When it began.
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NATO expansion & rising tensions
NATO stands for North Atlantic Treaty Organization, it is a military alliance of now 26 countries from Europe, and 2 North American Countries. This was formed in 1949 with 12 founding members. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) grew by including Greece and Turkey in 1952. With NATOs expansion, Russia had the urge to take punishing steps if NATO continued with its plans to station war planes and air defences in the Baltic states which caused tensions to rise. -
Glasnost & Perestroika
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Ukrainian Independence
August 24th, 1991 commemorates the anniversary of the country’s independence. On December 1, 1991, the vote on confirmation of The Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine took place. -
Collapse of Soviet Union
Led to the end of decades-long hostility between North Atlantic Treaty Organization and the Warsaw Pact, the defining feature of the Cold War. The main cause of the Soviet collapse was based on economic issues. When the Soviet Union fell, it ended the time of a superpower with their resources of more than a dozen countries. As the Soviet Union fell, it separated into fifteen different countries. -
European Union
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George W. Bush goes into office
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Bulgaria, Romania Estonia, Latvia, Lithunana, Romania, and Slovakia join NATO
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Russo-Georgian War
The Russo-Georgian War was an armed fued between Georgia, Russian Federation, and the Russian-backed self-proclaimed breakwaway republics of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This war took place in August of 2008 amongst Georgia and Russia, both Russia and Germany were essential republics of the Soviet Union. Most of their fighting took place in the Transcaucasia region, it borders the middle east. Vladimir Putin accused the U.S of arranging the war in Georgia. He claimed that "U.S. citizens were inde -
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Russo-Georgian War
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Barack Obama goes into office
44th U.S. President January 20, 2009 The only way that U.S. President Barack Obama can win in Ukraine now is by negotiating subsequent details to become deal-breakers and by sending lethal weapons to Ukraine now, escalate the war and its massive bloodshed -
Albania joins NATO
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Annexation of Crimea
Russia want's "their" land back. The Ukrainian territory of Crimea was occupied (annexed) by the Russian Federation. The annexation by Russia took place in the aftermath of the Ukrainian Revolution. This annexation took place on March 18th 2014 as Russia managed the territory of two Russian federal subjects, the city of Sevastopol and the Republic of Crimea.
