History timeline

By jo7lyn

  • Ronald Reagan initiates Strategic Defense Initiative

  • Gorbachev comes to power in USSR

  • G replaced long-time soviet foreign minister Andrei Gromyko with reformist eduard shevardnedze

  • Reykjyavik Summit

  • 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

  • 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