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Gorbachev introduces glasnost
a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost (meaning "openness") policy reform. -
Gorbachev Introduces Perestrokika
a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s. -
Intermediate range nuculear force (inf) treaty signed
Gorbachev and Reagan signing the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, Dec. 8, 1987AFP/Getty Imagesnuclear-arms-control accord reached by the United States and the Soviet Union -
Jozsef Antall elected prime minister of Hungary.
József Antall, (born April 8, 1932, Budapest, Hung.—died Dec. 12, 1993, Budapest) politician and prime minister of Hungary from 1990 until his death in 1993. -
Berlin wall falls
Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. -
Vaclav Havel Elected President Of Czechoslovakia
Václav Havel, (born October 5, 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]—died December 18, 2011, Hrádeček, Czech Republic) Czech playwright, poet, and political dissident, who, after the fall of communism, was president of Czechoslovakia (1989–92) and of the Czech Republic (1993–2003) -
Lech Walesa elected president of Poland
Lech Wałęsa, (born September 29, 1943, Popowo, near Włocławek, Poland) labour activist who helped form and led (1980–90) communist Poland’s first independent trade union, Solidarity. -
Germany Reunification take place
The German reunification is the unification of the two parts of Germany. After the Second World War, Germany had been divided into two countries -
1st general election in Romania
General elections were held in Romania on 20 May 1990. They were the first elections held after the overthrow of the Communist regime six months earlier, and also the first public presidential elections. They were also the first free elections held in the country since 1937.
