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Th soviet union invaded Aghanistan on december 27th 1979, Te united states threatened to boycott the games unless they pulled out of afghanistasn. The games were still boycotted.
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Ronald Regan announced a new program to give economic, and military assistance to carribean nations. This was to prevent the countries from being overthrown by communist parties.
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Ianians only gave america twelve million dollars, when they were supposed to give thirty million dollars. They found out that they were diverting funds from selling weapons to contras
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The SDI was a program for designing a missle defense system. The system would be launched into space, and use satalites to bounce and aim lasers at a missile to disable it. Unfortunately after spending thirty billion dollars, and eight years it yeilded no results.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the general secretary of the soviet union. He started reconstruction, and gave people more freedom of speach
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The United States and the Soviet Union agree to get rid of a whole class of nuclear missles. They were all ground launched missles with the range between 300-3400 miles.
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The Berlin wall was taken down by east germans. They were given the freedom to cross the boarder when ever they pleased by the communist party of East German.
