End of Cold War Timeline By Johnnyboy0011 Apr 24, 1979 U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics Apr 23, 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”) Jan 1, 1984 “Caribbean Basin Initiative” Mar 11, 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Aug 20, 1985 Iran-Contra Affair May 27, 1988 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified Aug 19, 1989 Berlin Wall collapses Jan 31, 1990 1st McDonalds opens in Moscow Oct 3, 1990 Germany is reunified Feb 25, 1991 Warsaw Pact is dissolved Jun 13, 1991 Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia Dec 26, 1991 end of the Soviet Union
