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Eastern Bloc was the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact.
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negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union (and, later, Russia) that were aimed at reducing those two countries’ arsenals of nuclear warheads and of the missiles and bombers capable of delivering such weapons.
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a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971
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two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union
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he visits china
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the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system.
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In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country
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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.
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a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan.
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the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985
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Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union
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nations under the control of the soviet union get out of the soviet union control
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Germany comes back together
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served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999.
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The coup attempt signified a decline in Gorbachev’s power and influence, while one of his most ardent opponents, Boris Yeltsin, came out of the event with more power than ever.
