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Geneva Summit
It was a meeting of "The Big Four": President Dwight D. Eisenhower of the United States, Prime Minister Anthony Eden of Britain, Premier Nikolai A. Bulganin of the Soviet Union, and Prime Minister Edgar Faure of France. The purpose was to bring together world leaders to begin discussions on peace. Gorbachev said "We viewed the Geneva meeting realistically, without grand expectations, yet we hoped to lay the foundations for a serious dialogue in the future." -
Richard Nixon and Detente
The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente; a 'thawing out' or 'un-freezing' at a period roughly in the middle of the Cold War. -
Soviet Invasion of Afganhistan
The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. -
Solidarity Movement in Poland
a Polish trade union federation that emerged on 31 August 1980 at the Gdańsk Shipyard under the leadership of Lech Wałęsa. It was the first non-Communist Party-controlled trade union in a Warsaw Pact country. the United States provided significant financial support for Solidarity, estimated to be as much as 50 million US dollars. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. With the tension of the Cold War looming overhead, the Strategic Defense Initiative was the United States’ response to possible nuclear attacks from afar. -
Evil Empire
This is when Ronald Reagan is like, forget detente and starts to cut ties between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. This was the point of time when the U.S. too a hard stance against the Soviet Union and declarded it as an evil empire. Reagan said the Soviet Union is, "the focus of evil in the modern world". -
Gorbachev and his ideas
When Mikhail S. Gorbachev (1931-) became general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he launched his nation on a dramatic new course. His dual program of “perestroika” (“restructuring”) and “glasnost” (“openness”) introduced profound changes in economic practice, -
Reykjavik Summit
The Reykjavík Summit was a summit meeting between U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev held in Reykjavik, Iceland. The talks collapsed at the last minute, but the progress that had been achieved eventually resulted in the 1987 Intermediate- Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. Reagan asked Gorbachev "Youwould turn down a historic opportunity becuase of a single word?' -
Tear Down This Wall
This was a challenge issued by Ronald Reagan to soviet union leader Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev to detsroy the berlin wall. He asked Gorbachev to tear it down as an emblem of Gorbachev's desire to increase freedom in the eastern bloc. Reagan famously said, "Tear down this wall". -
INF Treaty
The intermidiate-range nuclear forces treaty is a an agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. 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). -
Fall of the Berlin wall
on November 9, 1989, after increasing public unrest, East Germany finally opened the Berlin Wall. By the end of the year, official operations to dismantle the wall began. With the collapse of the Communist governments of Eastern Europe and, eventually, the Soviet Union itself, the tearing down of the wall epitomized the collapse for history. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
In December of 1991, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II
