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The Cold War's End 1974-91
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Camp David Accords
It established a framework for historical peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt. The accords were signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minster Menachem Begin. -
SALT II
This was a series of talks between the American and Soviet negotiators that sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. The primary goal was to replace the Interim Agreement with a long-term comprehensive Treaty that provided a broad limit on strategic offensive weapons system. -
Iran Hostage Crisis (Nov 4, 1979 – Jan 20, 1981)
This was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. A group of 52 American diplomats and citizens were held hostage by a group of militarized Iranian college students. The crisis overwhelmed President Carter 's foreign policy agenda and weakened Carter's vitality on foreign affairs which gave the USSR an opportunity to advance its agenda. -
Détente
This was a period of easing the Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union form 1967-1979. The era increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet and the signing of the SALT. -
Reagan’s Star Wars initiative
SDI proposed the U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks. -
Iran-Contra Affair (Aug 20, 1985 – Mar 4, 1987)
This was a secrete arms deal, that involved senior administration officials in the Reagan administrations secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran. It was an arms embargo. -
Reykjavik Summit of 1986 (Gorbachev-Reagan)
A meeting held between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev. The summit almost resulted in sweeping nuclear arms-control agreement which made it so the nuclear weapons of both side would be dismantled. -
Gorbachev Ronald Reagan
The two agreed on arms control, signing an agreement that banned the use of intermediate-range nuclear missiles; the Intermediate Nuclear Forces Reduction Treaty. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall came down and marked the first step towards German reunification.It represented the country's unification and the end of communism of Eastern Europe and the Cold War. -
Final Collapse of Soviet Union
The Soviet Union's hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over Kremlin, before being replaced.