A 20-Year Memory: The Dominoes Kept Falling

It started in East Germany, spread to Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia and other eastern bloc countries. Now it was the Big Domino itself.

December 3 - Cold War: In a meeting off the coast of Malta, U.S. President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev release statements indicating that the Cold War between their nations may be coming to an end.