In Europe, communism did fall.
1. The Solidarity movement in led by ousting the communist government.
2. Other communist nations quickly followed by booting the government out, including: Hungary, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Romania.
3. The symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall. In December of 1989, the wall came down after 45 years.
4. Even larger, the U.S.S.R. broke apart.
<span>1. Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika were opening things up within the Soviet Union. </span>
2. Soviet hardliners tried a military ouster of Gorbachev. Russian president Boris Yeltsin helped stop the coup attempt.
<span>3. Gorbachev later resigned in 1991 and the U.S.S.R. busted up into 15 independent republics. These were loosely united in what was called the "Commonwealth of Independent States." Gorbachev's legacy would be that he tore down the old communistic Soviet structure. </span>
<span>5. The message seemed clear: the Cold War was over, the democracies had won and communism had lost. Bush spoke of a "new world order" where democratic republics would negotiate rather than fight. </span>
<span>The United States with the fall of the USSR: With the Cold War over, military cuts were made. 34 military bases were closed, a $52 billion order for navy attack planes was canceled, defense plants closed. </span>
Scientists can't be sure about the early atmosphere and can only draw evidence from other sources. For example, volcanoes release high quantities of carbon dioxide. Iron-based compounds are present in very old rocks that could only have formed if there was little or no oxygen at the time.
<span>THE ANSWER IS MID-OCEAN RIDGES!!!</span>
