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Richard Nixon and Policy of Detente
soviet party leader Leonid Brezhnev came to the United States where he and Nixon signed a nuclear nonaggression pact and several agreements for science, transportation and cultural exchanges. But when Nixon wen to Russia in 1974 he and Brezhnev did not acheive a final agreeent on limiting the proliferation nuclear weapons -
soviet invasion of Afghanistan
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 (Lech Walesa)
A strike with about 17,000 workers and their leader Lech Walesa who took control of the Lenin shipyard to protest among other things, the rise of food prices. -
Ronald Reagan addresses the National Association of Evangelicals
president Reagan delivered an address to a meeting of National Association of Evangelicas in Orlando, Florida. It was focused on communism as '' The Focus Of Evil in the modern worl'' and quickly became known as his ''Evil Empire Speech''. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (''Star Wars'')
a program under President Ronald Reagan that was put in place o develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Summit in Geneva, Switzerland
The purpose was to bring together world leaders to begin discussions on peace. -
Reykjavik Summit, Iceland
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 Höfði in Reykjavík, the capital city of Iceland, on October 11–12, 1986. 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 speech at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin
President Reagan deliverd an important speech in front of the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin to highlight the role of a divided Berlin for American Cold War policy and to talk about the roles of the soviet union and United States in briging about the fall of communist regimes and the end of the Cold War -
Fall of berlin Wall
The Berlin wall prevented majority of East germans from emigrating to the West, but not all of them. During the history of the Berlin Wall an simated 5,000 people made it across, when communism began to falter in Poland, Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1989 the borders were opened and as people crossed they chipped peices off the wall until it wasn't recongizable -
Gorbachev, Perestroika, Glasnost
Gorbachev became a delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He was elected general secretary in 1985. He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year. He resigned in 1991. Perestroika and glasnost was a dual program that introduced changes in economic practice, internal affairs and international relations. -
Fall of Soviet Union
the fall of the USSR was due to the number of radical reforms Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev carried out during his leadership of the soviet union also due to representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) announcing that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union.
