End of the Cold War

U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics

Jan 20, 1980

it was part of a program to protest the soviet union.

Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)

Mar 23, 1983

a program proposed by president Reagan to stop nuclear missles.

Caribbean Basin Initiative

Jan 1, 1984

It aimed to provide several tariff and trade benefits to many Central American and Caribbean countries.

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Mar 11, 1985

Made reforms that contributed to the end of the cold war.

Iran-Contra Affair

Aug 20, 1985

provided funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran.

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified

Dec 8, 1987

it made u.s and soviet union eliminate their ballistic missile bases

Berlin Wall collapses

Nov 9, 1989

it allowed both sections of germany to come together again

1st McDonalds opens in Moscow

Jan 31, 1990

It showed that the soviet union was close to the end

Germany is reunified

Oct 3, 1990

East and West Germany reunited.

Warsaw Pact is dissolved

Jul 1, 1991

the millitary alliance between the countries was destoryed.

Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia

Aug 23, 1991

Had helped end the soviet union

end of the Soviet Union

Dec 23, 1991

breakup of the soviet union and the countries in it