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Warsaw Pact is dissolved
It was a collective defense treaty amoung eight communist states. It was part of the soviet military complement to the council for mutual economic assistance. -
U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics took place in Moscow, Russia. This was a way the United States began to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
It was purposed by president Ronald Reagon. It was created to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect to protect the united states from attack of nuclear weapons. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
It provided several tariff and trade benefits to many centeral and caribbean countries. It arose in the context of the U.S desire to respond with aid and trade. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev was a former Soviet statesman. He served as the country's chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet from 1988 to 1989 and served as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet from 1989 until 1991 when the Communist Party was abandoned. -
Iran-Contra Affair
It was a political scandle in the united states that occurred that occured during the second term of reagon administration. The scandle began as an operation to free the seven american hostages being held in lebanon. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
It was an agreement between the united states and the soviet union. It eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missles. -
Berlin Wall collapses
The Berlin Wall was created in 1961 and stood until 1989. The East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they wanted because they would not be pleased until they could. Those people either just crossed over or brought picks and hammers to destroy the wall. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
It was the soviet unions first fast food resuturant. It was a big hit back then -
Germany is reunified
Germany was reunified in 1990 which was the process in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germanyto form the reunited nation of Germany. They did this so Germany could be whole again. -
Boris Yeltstin elected President of Russia
Boris Yeltstin seved as the President of Russia from 1991 to 1999. He was a member of the communist part and played a huge role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
End of the Soviet Union
The hammer and sickle flag was lowered for the last time and was replaced with the Russian tri-color flag. Mikhail Gorbachev stepped down as prisident and Boris Yeltsin took his place.
