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The 9/11 attacks

The continued U.S. support of Israel led to serious protests among radical Islamists and terrorist strikes on American targets grew. Al-Qaeda carried out the 19.___________(SHOCKING) attack on September 11, 2001. In response to the 9/11 attacks, a successful U.S.-led international intervention brought down the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, which the U.S. believed 20.___________(GIVE) sanctuary to Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda. After September 11, President George Bush 21.___________(DECLARE) the "War on Terror" and, in 2002, with help from the British government, attacked Iraq on the premise of destroying "weapons of mass destruction" considered to be a threat to national security.

The breakup of the Soviet Union

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union. He undertook radical reforms and, in July 1989, he announced that countries within the Warsaw Pact could hold openly contested elections. Poles, Czechs, Hungarians, and others opted for democratic governments, destabilising the Soviet Union.

On January, 7, 1991, Gorbachev resigned. In July 1991, the anti-communist candidate Boris Yeltsin 22.___________(ELECT) as the president of Russia. He banned the Communist Party in Russia and met secretly with the leaders of Ukraine and Belarus, who agreed to leave the Soviet Union. Perhaps, if Gorbachev hadn't become president, the USSR 23.___________(EXIST) now. But a great empire split into 15 new independent states, and the Russian Federation 24.___________(APPEAR) in 1991.

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