-
When Gorbachev was elected general secretary he launched the program of glasnost or openness to lessen tension with other countries.
-
Gorbachev at this time also created perestroika to rebuild and reconstuct the Soviet Union and to bring t out of its crisis.
-
The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, but the treaty did not cover sea launched missiles.
-
The Berlin Wall that had separated Germany for thirty years was finally torn down.
-
He was the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary after the fall of Communism.
-
He served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic.
-
In the Polish general election of 1990, Wałęsa successfully ran for the newly re-established office of President of Poland. He presided over Poland's transition from communism to a post-communist state.
-
The process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city.
-
First time Romania used a general election to elect a president.
