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Summit in Geneva, Switzerland
A meeting of "The Big Four which consisted of 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. , the talks were influenced by the common goal for increased security. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.Around 5,000 people attempted to escape over the wall, with an estimated death toll of over 100. "The Berlin Wall wasn't the only barrier to fall after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War. Traditional barriers to the flow of money, trade, people, and ideas also fell." -
Detente
Flexible diplomacy adopted by Nixon that sought to ease tensions between the US and the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. Détente ended after the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, which led to the United States boycott of the 1980 Olympics in Moscow -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979, to February 1989 . It lasted four years and composed of Peshawar Seven and Tehran Eight -
Solarity Movement in Poland (Lech Walesa)
The Solarity Movement is a Polish non-governmental trade union that began at the Lenin Shipyards and was founded by Lech Walesa. In the early 1980's, it becamse the first independent labor union in a soviet-block country. -
Ronald Reagan adresses the National Association of Evangelicals
President Ronald Reagan delivered an address to a meeting of the National Association of Evangilcals in Orlando, Florida. It involved communism as the " focus of evil in the modern world" and later was known as the '"Evil Empire Speech" -
Strategic Defense Initiative ("Star Wars")
Proposed by Ronald Reagan to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclease ballistic missiles. The Strategic Defense Initative Organization was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative. -
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.This meeting resulted in the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union. "Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors of this city, part of a vast system of barriers that divides the entire continent of Europe. From the Baltic, south, those barrier -
Reagan Speech at Brandenburg Gate, West Berlin
On June 12, 2987 President Ronald Reagan spoke at The Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. He demanded that this twelve-foot concrete wall come down. It extended for a hundred miles, surrounding West Berlin, and included electrified fences and guard posts. " Behind me stands a wall that encircles the free sectors in this city, part of this vast systems of barriers that divides the whole continent of Europe." -
Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF Treaty
Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union, signed by President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail. This Treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground- launched ballistic cruise missiles -
Gorbachev, Perestroika, Glasnost
Gorbachev was elected to be the President of Soivet Union
-Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s.
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Fall of Soviet Union
The Soviet Union split into fifteen different countries. The United States rejoiced as it's enemy was torn down.
