Significant EvEntS in thE SoviEt Union and EaStErn EUropE bEtwEEn 1985-1990 timElinE
By 18cvalentine
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Glasnot was a policy that called for increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union.
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Peresroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s
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The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500–5,500 km (300–3,400 miles). The treaty did not cover sea launched missiles.
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The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West.
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Jozsef Antall was the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary after the fall of Communism
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Vaclav Havel served as the last president of Czechoslovakia. He then served as the first president of the Czech Republic
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Lech Walesa Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served as President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.
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was 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, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23. The end of the unification process is officially referred to as German unity
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In 2007, for the first time, Romanians elected their representatives to the European Parliament. The date for these elections was 25 November.
