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Gorbachev introduces glasnost. Glasnost was a policy of public openness of the government.
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Gorbachev introduces the policy of perestroika. Perestroika is the policy which encouraged the public to be more open about the government
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This treaty banned all nuclear missiles with a range of 300 to 3,400 miles.
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The Berlin wall falls as the result of the allowance of emigration of eastern Germans to western
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Jozsef Antall is elected prime minister of Hungary.
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Vaclav Havel is elected president of Czechoslovakia
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Lech Walesa is elected president of Poland.
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Germany is reunified after being split for 45 years after its defeat in world war 2
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Romania holds its first elections open to the public.
