A+World+in+Transition


 * George Kennan warned President Truman that the U.S. must act aggressive to contain Soviet aggression in 1947.


 * In Eastern Europe helped to ease world tensions the collapse of communist dictators.


 * Soviets dominated governments had controlled the nations of Eastern Europe since the end of the World War 2.


 * The Polish government had outlawed in 1981.


 * The East Germans government stunned the world by announcing that it was opening the wall, after months of protests by East Germans in November of 1989.


 * Ronald Reagan took more militant approach toward affairs in Nicaragua than George Bush.


 * In the Eastern Europe the Soviet President Gorbachev accepted reform.


 * In South Africa many U.S. businesses also closed their factories and sales outlets.