CSPAN2 Key Capitol Hill Hearings June 2, 2014
Took place gradually as a result of various conflicts. The u. S. Expanded into the vacuum made possible by the collapse of soviet power in the middle east with the gulf war and then became even more deeply involved with the iraq war and afghanistan in central asia. I will get to that in a moment of the in europe, although the presidency of the George Herbert walker bush had promised gorbachev as a condition for german reunification within nato that the u. S. Would not expand nato eastward, the Clinton Administration reneged on this promise and did so. Finally in asia the United States simply k...