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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
He brought about serious economic, social, and political changes. He helped bring an end to both the Cold War and the Soviet Union. -
U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott in Moscow was a part of actions initiated by the U.S. to protest aginst the Soviet invasion of Afganistan.This went to 1984 carrying out by the Soviets and other communists countires. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
The CBI was part of the Reagan administration's effort to curb what it perceived to be the dangerous rise in communist activity in Central America and the Caribbean. The CBI was a unilateral and temporary United States program initiated by the 1983 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
The SDi was proposed by the US president Reagan to use ground base and space based systems to protect the U.S. This was preventing the U.S. from getting attack by nuclear misslies. -
Iran-Contra Affairs
Reagan secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran. Some U.S. officals hoped arm sales would secure the release of several hostages and allow U.S. intelligence agencies to fund the Nicaraguan Contras. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ratified
This treaty between the U.S. and Soviet Union on the elimination of the INF. This was a major milestone for arms control, this was the first time in history the U.S. and Soviets agreed to eliminate an entire class of nuclear weapons. -
Berlin Wall Collaspes
The Berlin Wall had a physical division between West Berlin & East Germany, it was a symbolic boundary between democracy and communism during the Cold War. In 1989 the East Berlins party announced the change in his city's relation with the West. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
McDonalds got permission to start business on the territory of Soviet Union. More than 5 thousand people came to the day opening. -
Germany is reunified
The economy of the East largely collapsed, and the costs of reunification and the privatization of state-owned businesses in the East pushed Germany into recession and led to increased social tensions. After less than a year of the destruction of the Belin Wall the East and West Germany came together which was called "Unity Day". -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
When the Soviet Union partitioned itself into several new democratic states, several other countries followed. The Warsaw Pact, was an alliance between Eastern European socialist republics, which lead to a decline in communism and the Warsaw Pact was dissolved. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
Millions of Russians went to the polls for the first tie open election. Though a Communist Party member for much of his life, he eventually came to believe both democratic and free market reforms, and played a major role in the collapse of the Soviet Union. -
End of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The Soviet Union transformed the entire world political situation, leading to a complete reformulation of political, economic and military alliances all over the globe.