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Gorbachev introduces Glasnost (openness). This was a part of the new political reform.
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The second reform introduced by Gorbachev in 1985. This was also used for political reasons.
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Required the United States and the Soviet Union to swear not to use nuclear weapons.
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East and West Berlin were reunited and people began climbing over the wall. Some even brought hammers to tear the wall down.
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The first fully-democratic elected Prime Minister. He was elected after the fall of communism.
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He was a writer, philosopher, dissident and statesman. Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia.
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Walesa was a Polish politician and founder of Solidarity. He was elected president of Poland in 1990.
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The call for democracy was at its highest. It didn't take long for democracy to take over and spread.
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These were the first official elections for the People's Movement Party.
