1988 aids hiv stands for human immunodeficiency virus

1988
AIDS

HIV stands for human immunodeficiency virus. It is the virus that
can lead to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome, or AIDS, if not
treated. These opportunistic infections or cancers take advantage
of a very weak immune system and signal that the person has AIDS,
the last stage of HIV infection.
Nov 8, 1988
1988 Election
It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1988. Incumbent Vice
President George H. W. Bush, the Republican nominee, defeated
Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts. The 1988
election is the only election since 1948 in which either major
party won a third straight presidential election.
1989
Unraveling of the Soviet Bloc
The communist nations closely allied with the Soviet Union,
including Bulgaria, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary,
Poland, and Romania, whose foreign policies depended on those of
the former Soviet Union.
Nov 9, 1989
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern
Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced
a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at
midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to
cross the country's borders.
Period: 1985 to 1991
Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika
To reform the distraught Soviet Union, the democratization of the