1. With the end of the Cold War, the United States
changed its goals and policies.

2.  Foreign Aid
 Humanitarian
Aid
 Support of
Human Rights

3. Fall of Communism in
Eastern Europe:
 Reunification of
Germany
 Collapse of
Yugoslavia
 Breakup of Soviet
Union

4. Persian Gulf War
 First War where
American women
served in a combat
role
 Operation Desert
Storm

5.  North American
Free Trade
Agreement
(NAFTA)
 Full diplomatic
relations with
Vietnam

6.  Lifted economic
sanctions against
South Africa when
its government
ended apartheid
 NATO action in
former Yugoslavia

7.  Terrorist Attacks
on United States
Soil (9/11/2001)

8.  War in Iraq

9.  War in
Afghanistan