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Richard Nixon and the Policy of Détente
a release if tensions in hopes of an improvement for US and USSR relations, Nixon wanted to work with USSR. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
This war lasted 9 years and was fight between the Soviet- led Afgan forces and Mujahideen. The first phase was known as occupation and began in December with Soviet troops entering Afghanistan. Then Soviets began to occupy cities and main ways of communication, which lead to Soviet offensives. Then in April 1985 exit strategies were beginig to take place be made and in January 1985 the withdrawl started. -
Solidarity Movement in Poland
The first independent labor union in Soviet Union. It rose awareness to nonviolent, anticommunist social movements and they had 9.4 million members. They also contributed to the fall of communsim. -
Ronald Reagan addresses the National Association of Evangelicals
This speech was nickmamed "Evil Empire" and used descried the Soviet Union. The speech helped explain why the US was stuck in the Cold War and it also talked about morals. Reagan gave this speech in hopes that it would enlist members of the NAE and other Christain Services to support National Security policies. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
Proposed by President Ronald Reagan to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear missiles. It was the United States’ response to possible nuclear attacks from afar. "I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace, to give us the means of rendering those nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete" -
Summit in Geneva
meeting brtween Reagon and Gorbachev, they met to discuss international diplomatic relations and the arms race -
Reykjavik Summit
It was halfwy between Moscow and Washington D.C. President Reagan met with Soviet leader Gorbachev to directly discuss nuclear disarmament. This meeting led to negotiations for the Nuclear Forces and START 1 Treaty -
Reagan speech at Bradenberg Gate, West Berlin
This speech marked Reagan's call for reunification of East and West Berlin and challenged Gorbachev. "Tear down these walls" were the most remembered and powerful words from the speech. 2 Years after the speech was given thousands of people went to East Germany to see the boarders be disassembled. -
Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF Treaty
A Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. The first nuclear arms control agreement to actually reduce nuclear arms. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Gunter Schabonski made it known that "Permianent relocations can be done through all bordur checjpoints between East and West Gernany Border." The guards allowed people to cross from both sides of the wall and people started to break down the wall from both sides. -
Gorbachev, Perestroika, and Glasnost
Gorbachev was the seventh and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. Perestroika is the practice of rr reforming the economic and political system. Glasnost is the practice of more open consultative government and wider
dissemination of information. -
Fall of the Soviet Union
"USSR fell into 15 seperate countries and the collapse was hailed by the west as a victory of freeedom, truimph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism". George W. Bush did not folllow the policy of Ronald Reagan in dealing with Gorbachev and the Soviet Union. http://www.coldwar.org/articles/90s/fall_of_the_soviet_union.asp
