INTER WAR YEARS 1919 TO 1939
COLLAPSE OF THE SOVIET UNION
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CIS
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USSR
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NATO
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Warsaw Pact
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Detailed explanation-1: -Bush recognized all 12 independent republics and established diplomatic relations with Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan. In February 1992, Baker visited the remaining republics and diplomatic relations were established with Uzbekistan, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan.
Detailed explanation-2: -As the Soviet Union disintegrated, Belarus, Russia and Ukraine signed the Belovezh Accords on 8 December 1991, declaring that the Union had effectively ceased to exist and proclaimed the CIS in its place.
Detailed explanation-3: -The three Baltic states – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – were the first to break away from the USSR by proclaiming the restoration of their independence, between March and May 1990, claiming continuity from the original states that existed prior to their annexation by the Soviet Union in 1940.