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1980 Summer Olympics Boycott
it was part of a number of actions by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. The Soviet Union and other countries later supported the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
This was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Cariibian Basin Initiative
it aimed to provide several tariff and trade benefits to many Americans and Caribbean countries. It arose when the U.S responded with aid and trade -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union
it was was the title given to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. -
End of the Soviet Union
It was acknowledging the independence of the Soviet republics and creating the Common wealth of Independent States although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. -
Iran-Contra Affair
It was a political scandal in the United States that happened during the second term of the Reagan Administration -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
The Treaty Between the United States and the Soviet Union Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
The arrival of McDonald’s in Moscow was a small but certain sign that change was coming soon. -
Germany is reunified
It was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city. -
Berlin Wall collapses
It was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989,It was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) .That completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989 -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
He emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
It was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance the regional economic organization for the communist States of Central and Eastern Europe.
