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1990

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ninetiesnounThe decade of the 1890s, 1990s, etc.
1970snounThe decade beginning in 1970 and ending in 1979.
1900snounA period that began on January 1, 1900 and ended on December 31, 1999; almost the same period as the 20th century (which, however, was from year 1901 to 2000)
1980snounThe decade beginning in 1980 and ending in 1989.
decadenounA period of ten years , particularly such a period beginning with a year ending in 0 and ending with a year ending in 9.
yearsnoun(colloquial, hyperbolic) A very long time.
mid-ninetiesnounthe time of life between 90 and 100
ninetynounbeing ten more than eighty
1989From left, clockwise: an earthquake strikes the San Francisco Bay Area, killing 63 people; the proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; the Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs aground in Prince William Sound, Alaska, causing a large oil spill; the fall of the Berlin Wall begins the downfall of Communism in Eastern Europe, and heralds German reunification; the United States invades Panama to depose Manuel Noriega; the Baltic Way led to the independence of the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania from the Soviet Union; the stands of Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, Yorkshire, where the Hillsborough disaster occurred; students demonstrate in Tiananmen Square, Beijing; many are killed by forces of the Chinese Communist Party.|300x300px|thumb
german reunificationthe process of re-establishing Germany as a single sovereign state, which began on 9 November 1989 and culminated on 3 October 1990 with the dissolution of the German Democratic Republic and the integration of its re-established constituent federated states into the Federal Republic of Germany to form present-day Germany.
history of germanyThe concept of Germany as a distinct region in Central Europe can be traced to Julius Caesar, who referred to the unconquered area east of the Rhine as Germania, thus distinguishing it from Gaul.
peaceful revolutionThe Peaceful Revolution – also, in German called ("the turning point") – was one of the peaceful revolutions of 1989 at the peak of the collapse of the Eastern Bloc in the late 1980s.
history of russiaThe history of Russia begins with the histories of the East Slavs.
fall of the berlin wallThe fall of the Berlin Wall on 9 November 1989, during the Peaceful Revolution, marked the beginning of the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain, as East Berlin transit restrictions were overwhelmed and discarded.
new states of germanyThe new states of Germany are the five re-established states of the former German Democratic Republic that unified with the Federal Republic of Germany with its 10 "old states" upon German reunification on 3 October 1990.
aftermath of world war iiThe aftermath of World War II saw the rise of two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States.
old states of germanyThe old states of Germany is a jargon referring to the ten of the sixteen states of the Federal Republic of Germany that were part of West Germany and that unified with the eastern German Democratic Republic's 5 states, which are given the contrasting term new states of Germany.
revolutions of 1989The Revolutions of 1989, also known as the Fall of Communism, were a revolutionary wave of liberal democracy movements that resulted in the collapse of most Marxist–Leninist governments in the Eastern Bloc and other parts of the world.
decolonisation of africaThe decolonisation of Africa was a series of political developments in Africa that spanned from the mid-1950s to 1975, during the Cold War.
dissolution of the soviet unionThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was formally dissolved as a sovereign state and subject of international law on 26 December 1991 by Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union.

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