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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The boycott was one action that The United States participated in to protest the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. About 60 other countries joined The United States in boycotting the summer olympics that took place in Moscow Russia. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative”
“Caribbean Basin Initiative” is also known as Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act or CBERA for short. This was a temporary program that the United States would use to provide several tariff and trade benefits to many Central American and Caribbean countries. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative program was initiated by President Ronald Reagan, on March 23, 1983. The program was created to develop an anti-ballistic missile system that would prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. The scandal began as an operation to free the seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
They were missiles with ranges of 500 to 5,500 kilometers. This was the replacement of the older intermediate-range SS-4 and SS-5 missiles with a new intermediate-range missile -
Berlin Wall collapses
As the Cold War began to get more intense the spokesman for East Berlin’s Communist Party announced a “change in his city’s relations with the West”. From there East and West berlin citizens flooded to the scene of the wall with picks and shovels to destroy it. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
The appearance of the first Mcdonald's was a notorious symbol for capitalism for the russians. This gave hope to them that change was coming and in fact about two years later the Soviet Union was almost non existence. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Gorbachev was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, he was the sole candidate on the ballot. Gorbachev determined party membership composition. His dual program of “perestroika” (“restructuring”) and “glasnost” (“openness”) this made many changes politically. -
Germany is reunified
Helmut Kohl was the first chancellor of the reunified Germany. The Reunify took 45 years and the day became known as “Unity Day.” -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
He served from 1991 to 1999 and being a Communist member for most of his life. He played an instrumental role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
After being in existence for thirty six years and its purpose being a military alliance between the Soviet Union and eastern Europe. It finally ended in 1991, NATO had begun in 1949 as a defensive military alliance between the United States, Canada, and several European nations to stop Soviet expansion into Western Europe. -
End of the Soviet Union
The End of the Soviet Union started with 11 Soviet republics announcing that they would no longer be apart of the Soviet Union, this left 15 Soviet republics still apart of the Union. Then on December 25 Gorbachev resigned from his job as leader of the Soviet Union.
