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The "Big Four" met in Geneva, Switzerland in order to discuss peace. At the very least, the overall goal was to relieve tension among nations.
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President Richard Nixon travels to the USSR for a summit with Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin. They agree to seek a policy of detente.
"The agreement (of Detente) cannot be siad to have any substantial role in affecting the course of the cold war and its final settlement. They did not have any weakening effect on US or western resolve or behavior, as some critics had feared, nor can it be demonstrated that they moderated the pursuit of advantage... as both continued to wage CD." -
The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the cold war, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghanistan forces against multinational insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight.
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Lech Walesa starts a national trade union. It was supported by womens and roman catholic church.
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Where Reagan and Gorbachev met, both sign of on nuclear missle treaty.
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It was proposed by the US president Ronald Reagan. To us ground and space based systems.
"The defense policy of the US is based on a simple premise: The US does not start wars. we will never be an aggressor." -
Perestroika- Political movement
Glasnot- "openness" " what we need is star peace not star wars" -Gorbachev
"If not me, who? And if not now, when?" -Gorbachev -
"Behind me stands a wall that encircles the sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe."
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Wall is destroyed , more than 800 people were killed, and it was ongoing for 28 years.
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Soviet union ceased to exist and became Russia and became 15 other independent states. This will mark the end of the cold war.
