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was the first democratically-elected Prime Minister of Hungary after the fall of Communism
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was a Czech writer, philosopher, dissident, and statesman. From 1989 to 1992, he served as the last president of Czechoslovakia.
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is a retired Polish politician and labor activist. He co-founded and headed Solidarity , the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, and served President of Poland from 1990 to 1995.
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the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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was 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 policy reform.
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became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course
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is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union .
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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
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The president is elected for a five-year term by the people after a change from four-year terms after the 2004 election.
