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Collapse of the Soviet Union

By theiankrause1

  • President Reagan proposes Strategic Defense Initiative

  • Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan

    Soviet troops withdraw from Afghanistan
    15,000 dead and missing, over 400,000 incapacitated by disease or serious illness

  • Berlin Wall falls

    Berlin Wall falls
    Berlin Wall falls (November), and in the next month, communist governments
    fall in Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Rumania.
  • Period: to

    Regin of Mikhail Gorbachev

    Last President of the Soviet Union when it collapsed.

  • The Soviet Union finnally falls apart.