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Kroc's first McDonald's restaurant opened on April 15, 1955, at 400 North. Will overshadow the current largest McDonald's in the world in Moscow, Russia.
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The Berlin Wall is dramatically breached after nearly three decades of keeping East and West Berliners apart.
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On this day in 1980, President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer.
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Also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal. Secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling.
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President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based object.
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The Caribbean Basin Initiative is not a trade agreement. Rather, it is a non-reciprocal grant, by statute of a cold war “anti-communism.''
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As general secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev became one of the Politburo’s most highly active and visible members.
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The United States tabled a draft INF Treaty text, which ... Because of concerns raised by the Senate during the ratification hearings
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A strong drive for reunification developed in East and West Germany in 1990. In East Germany, conservative parties supporting reunification won the elections.
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So named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw. On March 1991, the military alliance component of the pact was dissolved.
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Millions of Russians went to the polls for the first time in an open election to choose a president.
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Dissolution of the state also marked an end to the Cold War. Which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II.
