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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
Done to protest the Soviet invasion in Afgahnistan. Issued by the President as said the United States would protest. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
Proposed to President Ronald Regan to protect the US from attack by strategic nuclear missles. This focused on the defense aspect rather than "playing on the offense. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Temporary program put into effect by Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. Wanted to provide tariff and trade benefits to Central America and Caribbean countries. Also known as the CBI. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Party's first leader born after the revolution. In office March 1985-August 1991 -
Iran-Contra Affair
Political scandal coming to light in November of 1986. Facilitated the selling of guns to Iran. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Previously called The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. -
Berlin Wall collapses
The whole wll was not torn down immediately. People ould chip away at the wall to keep pieces as soveniers. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
First McDonald in Soviet Union. A way for people to free themselves from the political stress. -
Germany is reunified
They celebrate this as a holiday. Led to the GSR free elecetions -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
meeting made to close down the pact. Issues closing down the treaty were caused internaly -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
He won Russia's first presidential election. Term ended in 1999 -
end of the Soviet Union
Created fifteen countries. Began in the non-Russian areas.
