Discuss the three key elements that changed the political landscape of Europe and the world during the late 1980s and the early 1990s

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Answer 1

• In 1989 the Berlin Wall came down, leading to the reunification of Germany.
• To the south, new nations emerging from the former Yugoslavia took up arms and resumed a centuries-old struggle.
• But the greatest change of all came in the East.
• The Soviet Union dissolved, along with the authoritarian rule of the Communist Party in the republics of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
• These three changes occurred at a time when Western Europeans were taking bold steps toward economic and political unity.
• As the structure of Europe and the world changed from 1989 to 1992, European terrorism also changed.
• Ideological terrorism swung from left to right, changing its structure as it moved.
• Nationalistic terrorism remained, but conflict rose in the form of ethnic violence.
• Ethnic violence grew into open warfare in the Balkans.
• New criminal organizations appeared, and old ones were revitalized.
• The threat of jihadist terrorism replaced threats from the left, and Europe experienced new strains of terrorism.
• After growth unprecedented since 1968, left-wing terrorism began to decline by 1986.