End of the Cold War and Fall of the USSR

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    Reagan's Military Build-Up

    $1.5 trillion spent, inclusive of funds for Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) capable of shooting missiles down mid-flight, Possible end of arms race
  • Gorbachev's Rise to Power

    Gorbachev's Rise to Power

  • Gorbachev announces temporary moratorium on nuclear testing

  • Reykjyavik Summit

    Reykjyavik Summit

    Gorbachev made sweeping concessions, accepted Reagan's Zero Option Plan and proposed abolishment of all uclear weapons within 10 years, Not end of Cold War in terms of arms race due to Reagan's unwillingness to scrap SDI
  • Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

    Intermediate Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

    Drastic reduction of Soviet weapons relative to the Americans'
  • Gorbachev's UN Speech

    Gorbachev's UN Speech

    Announced that international relations would be free of ideology, Possible end of Cold War if defined as an ideological conflict
  • Solidarity-led coalition wins Polish Elections

    Solidarity-led coalition wins Polish Elections

    Possible End of Cold War as defined by a division in Europe
  • Sinatra Doctrine

    Sinatra Doctrine

    Granted Eastern Europeans greater freedom
  • Fall of Berlin Wall

    Fall of Berlin Wall

    Marked end of Cold War as defined by division in Europe
  • Secession of Soviet republics

    Secession of Soviet republics

    Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Georgia, Ukraine, Armenia
  • Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty

    Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty

    Unilateral reduction of Soviet armed forces by half a million men, Could represent End of CW in terms of a conventional arms race
  • Drafting of Union Treaty

    Drafting of Union Treaty

    Gave more autonomy to soviet republics in an attempt to prevent secession
  • August Coup

    August Coup

    Cemented Boris Yeltsin's political position, weakened Gorbachev's
  • Fall of the USSR

    Fall of the USSR