1985: Mikhail Gorbachev became the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party, marking the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union. Gorbachev instituted the policy of glasnost, emphasizing government openness and honesty. In December of 1991 the Soviet Union officially dissolved, allowing its constituent countries to elect their own representative gov ernments.
Today: Not faced with the threat of Communism, the United States is less likely to enter into a war like the one in Vietnam for the sake of maintaining a global balance of power.
1985: The United States became a debtor nation, spending more than it had to spend, for the first time in over seventy years.
Today: Politicians are cutting social programs in an attempt to bring federal expenditures in balance with the government's income schemes to balance the budget have come.....
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