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Ronald Reagan initiates Strategic Defense Initiative
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Gorbachev comes to power in USSR
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G replaced long-time soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko with reformist eduard shevardnedze
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Reykjyavik Summit
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Reagan's Brendenburg gate speech
"Evil empire" -
INF Treaty
Drastically assymetrical reduction of theatre nuclear weapons. highlight how much G is willing to detroy more weapons than Reagan -
Gorbochev's speech at the UN
G announced that international relations would now be free of "ideology"
Reduction in the soviet military presence in eatern europe. -
Solidarity wins Polish elections
Marked end of cold war as defined by a division in europe -
Fall of Berlin wall
Symbol which represents the already present destroyed division in europe -
Lithuania declared independence
seceeionist tendencies -
Boris yeltsin come to power in USSR
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CFE treaty
Confirmed G's speech in 1988 -
Union treaty
give more autonomy to the soviet republics
immediate cause of the August coup
G wants to prevent the secession of republics and hence avert the collapse of the USSR -
August coup 1991
Fall of ussr