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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The boycott of the 1980 Moscow summer olympics was part of a plan to protest the soviets invasion of afganastan. It waas the first and only time the US ever boycotted the olymics. -
“Caribbean Basin Initiative”
This was designed to prevent the overthrow of the government in the caribbean.This was part of president Regans plan to prevent the spread of communism. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)
Was initiated under president Ronald Regan.The programs intent war to develope an Anti-ballistic missle system to prevent misle attacks from other contries. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
when he became the leader of the USSR he ws younger than all of the former people in chage and had a new outlook on things. He realized the problems he had enharited and wanted to make changes. -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair was a clandestine action not approved of by the United States Congress. It began in 1985, when President Ronald Reagan's administration supplied weapons to Iran a sworn enemy in hopes of securing the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by Hezbollah terrorists loyal to the Ayatollah Khomeini, Iran's leader. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
The Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) was a major milestone in arms control. For the first time in history the U.S. and Soviet Union agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons. -
Berlin Wall collapses
The berlin wall was the devision between west berlin and east germany, a wall between democracy and communism. People flooded the wall and broke through it and reunited familys and friends. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
Tons of people line up to pay the equivalent of several days' wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries.The arrival of McDonald's in Moscow was a small but certain sign that change was coming. -
Germany is reunified
In East Germany, conservative parties supporting reunification won the elections, and the new government and the force of events proceeded to dismantle the state. The economy of the East largely collapsed, and the costs of reunification and the privatization of state-owned businesses in the East pushed Germany into recession and led to increased social tensions. -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
The warsaw pact included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The pact called for the other members to go to the "defence" of any member attacked by an outside force. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. He won two presidential elections, the first of which occurred while Russia was still a Soviet republic. -
End of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union broke into fifteen seperate countries. The break up of the soviet union lead to a complete reformulation of political, economic and military alliances all over the globe.
