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The title for this postion were also these before they were know as "General Secretary of the Central Committee"; Technical Secretary, Chairman of the Secretariat, Responsible Secretary and First Secretary. Mikhail Gorbachev was in office when the Soviet collapsed.
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The United States said if the Soviet did not withdrawl from Afghanistan. If they did not the the United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics.
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The Strategic Defense Initiative actually offically formed in 1984. It was the first initiated by President R Reagan to form a anti-ballistic missle system.
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An act that was took by the CBI was Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. This program tried providing several trade benefits to many Central American and Caribbean countries.
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It began as an operation to free seven American hostages being held in Lebanon. Isereal would ship weapons to Iran and the U.S, would remberse them.
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The treaty is between the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The treaty eliminates intermediate-range and short-range missiles.
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The East German Communist government announced that citizens could cross the border whenever they wanted. Soon everyone showed up with tools and ripped down the wall.
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The first McDonalds was opened in the Soviet Union by getting the communist permission. Is wasn't built because pf political reason, but just for satification.
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Many protest from East Germany lead to the negotiations between the two sides. Then, in a final desison the two sides finally became reunified.
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The Warsaw Pact was in exstence for 36 years before it dissolved. The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance between the Societ Union anf it's eastern European Satellites.
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Boris Yelstin was Russia's first president. Yelstin was 69 years old when he was elected.
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With the leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, resigning was also the complete end of the soviet. After the sovie collasped, it was also the end of the Cold War.
