“Five, four, three, two, one – HAPPY NEW YEAR!” And it’s not just any new year. It’s New Year’s Eve 2000. A new century has begun.
Confetti falls, and the world enters the 21st century.
By the year 2000, people felt safer than before. They were less worried about nuclear weapons. This was because the Cold War had ended. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union didn’t get along. Things got better when the Soviet Union split into separate countries. That was 1991. This left the U.S. as the world’s strongest country. In 1970, most countries signed a deal to stop nuclear weapons from spreading. It was called the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The Berlin Wall came down in 1989. The wall had kept East and West Germany apart since 1961. In 1990, Germany became one country again.
