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Jimmy Carter is defeated in the United States Presidential Election by Ronald Reagan.
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President Ronald Reagan signs an executive order that provides for the decontrol of crude oil and refined petroleum products.
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President Ronald Reagan initiates a travel ban that restricts United States citizens from visiting Cuba as tensions in the international conflict worsen.
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Yuri Andropov (a high-ranking officer for the CPUS) announces that an increased number of missiles were now aimed at the United States.
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A boycott was initiated for the 1984 Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles. The boycott involved fourteen Eastern Bloc countries and allies, led by the Soviet Union. This was a response to United States boycott from the 1980 Winter Olympic Games in Moscow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9G_RQATFDZA
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Mikhail Gorbachev (President of the Soviet Union) and President Ronald Reagan agree to start open negotiations on arms and warfare reductions in the American-Soviet Union conflict.
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Mikhail Gorbachev proposed a fifteen year timetable for the elimination of all nuclear based weapons across the globe.
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2,611 intermediate-range missiles to be removed from Europe after both President Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev signed an intermediate nuclear forces treaty at the Summit Conference.
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In a seminal speech to the United Nations General Assembly in 1988, Mikhail Gorbachev indicated a major shift in foreign policy, announcing cuts in his country's military presence in Eastern Europe and that they hope to improve the international situation.
