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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.
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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.
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On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic GDR, or East Germany began to build a barbed wire and concrete
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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. -
The Strategic Defense Initiative also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan.
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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.
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The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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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.
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The German reunification (German: Deutsche Wiedervereinigung) was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic.
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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.
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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.
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The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no.
