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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union
General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Кwas he title given to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
The Warsaw Pact was formed in 1955, primarily as a response to the decision by the United States and its western European allies to include a rearmed West Germany in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. -
Berlin Wall collapses
On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic GDR, or East Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete -
U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in
Afganastan .The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)
The Strategic Defense Initiative also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. -
“Caribbean Basin Initiative
The Caribbean Basin Initiative was a unilateral and temporary United States program initiated by the 1983 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act The CBI came into effect on January 1, 1984. -
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. -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran Contra affair Spanish also referred to as Irangate or the Iran Contra scandal, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
Germany is reunified
The German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
The Soviet Union’s first McDonald’s fast food restaurant opens in Moscow. Throngs of people line up to pay the equivalent of several days’ wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
Boris Yeltsin served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. Though a Communist Party member for much of his life, he eventually came to believe in both democratic and free market reforms, and played an instrumental role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
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.
