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Ushered in a era of relaxed tension between the US, Soviet Union, and China. Signed tratys such as SALT I and Helsiki Accords.
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The Soviet Union interveined to help the commnist government in Afghanistan. The ar lasted 9 yeas.
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It was the first no-comunist trade union in a warsaw pact country. t reached 9.5 million members by 1981. It was lead by Lech Walesa. The US provided up to 50 million US dollard to help it.
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On March 8, 1983 in Orlando Florida. Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an Evil Empire. The speach was mainly about moral values and how they underlay american democracy.
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Uses ground base and space base systems to protect the US from attacks.
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Perestroika stands for reconsruction. Glasnost stants for openness. When Gorbachev was elected to office he set the country on a new path. His program helped end the cold war.
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Cold War era meeting in Geneva Switzerland. Reagan and Gorbachev met for the first time. They met to talk about international diplomicy. Both sides where looking to cut the amount f nuculear weapons.
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Ronald Reagan an Gorbachev met in Icelad. Gorbachev wanted to ban all ballistics but Reagan wanted to continue "star wars". So nothing was accomplished
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On the 750th aniversiary of Berlin. This is the famous "Tear down this wall". Reagan asked Gorbachev to take down the wall. 45,000 people were in attendance. He had 2 panes of bulletproof glass in front of him.
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An agreement by the US and the Soviet Union. This eleminated short and long range missiles and also nuculer bombs between 300 and 3400 mile range.
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The berlin wall was torn down peice by peice. The wall did not all come down at once, but took weeks and months. many people came with sledghammers and chizzles.
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The previous day Gorbachev resigned and handed over the nuculear launch codes to Boris Yeltsin the new Russian president. This marked the end of the cold war.
