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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the title given to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. With some exceptions, the office was synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union. -
U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. -
Berlin Wall collapses
The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
The Caribbean Basin Initiative was a temporary United States program initiated by the 1983 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act . The CBI came into effect on January 1, 1984, and aimed to provide several tariff and trade benefits to many Central American and Caribbean countries. -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran–Contra affair also referred to as Irangate,Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union.The treaty is formally titled 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. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
In the late 1970s, competition from other hamburger chains such as Burger King and Wendy's began to intensify. Experts believed that the fast-food industry had become as big as it ever would, so the companies began to battle fiercely for market share. -
Germany is reunified
was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999. -
end of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union
