An American History

THE POST– COLD WAR WORLD ★^1075

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Sofia

Prague

Berlin

Helsinki

Athens

Budapest

Rome

Warsaw

Bucharest

Ankara

Belgrade

Minsk

Sarajevo

Podgorica

Zagreb

Tallinn

Riga

Vilnius

Skopje

Bratislava

Ljubljana

Vienna Kiev

Copenhagen

Oslo

Stockholm

Moscow

Chisinau ̧ ̆

Yerevan

Baku

Tbilisi

Ashgabat

ITALY

GERMANY

CZECH

REPUBLIC

SLOVAKIA

AUSTRIA

SLOVENIA HUNGARY

CROATIA

BOSNIA &

HERZEGOVINA

MONTENEGRO

SERBIA

ALBANIA

MACEDONIA

GREECE

TURKEY

ROMANIA

BULGARIA

MOLDOVA

UKRAINE

POLAND

RUS.

LITHUANIA

LATVIA

ESTONIA

BELARUS

NORWAY

SWEDEN

FINLAND

DENMARK

RUSSIA

KAZAKHSTAN

UZBEKISTAN

TURKMENISTAN

GEORGIA

ARMENIA AZERBAIJAN

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EASTERN EUROPE AFTER THE COLD WAR
The end of the Cold War and breakup of the Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia redrew
the map of eastern Europe (compare this map with the map of Cold War Europe in Chapter 23).
Two additional nations that emerged from the Soviet Union lie to the east and are not indicated
here: Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.
victory in the Cold War and the Gulf, more and more Americans believed
the country was on the wrong track. No one seized more effectively on the
widespread sense of unease than Bill Clinton, a former governor of Arkansas.
In 1992, Clinton won the Democratic nomination by combining social liberal-
ism (he supported abortion rights, gay rights, and affirmative action for racial
What were the major international initiatives of the Clinton administration
in the aftermath of the Cold War?