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Reagan's reelection
Reagan won the reelecttion easily against Walter Mondale. But the international relationship with the allies become worsen, due to the "anti-nuclear movement". He also seeks for something to solve this problem. On the other hand, his public rhetorc against the USSR becomes less aggressive. -
Iran–Contra affair
The administration hoped to use the proceeds of the arms sale to fund the Contras, a right-wing rebel group, in Nicaragua. Reagan’s popularity took a beating -
The exlosion in Chernobyl
Result of neglection and political corruption. Impact on Gorbachev, how the nuclear weapon could be catastrophe in home land. -
The summit of Reykjavik
Gorbachev accepted the previous offer of "zero option" which had been rejected, adn even proposed a more radical proposal: a fifty percent cut in all strategic nuclear weapons. Reagan countered with the plan to eliminate all strategic weapons as long as the United States (and any other nation) could deploy defense systems against remaining nuclear arms. Then Gorbachev responded demanding U.S to cease works on SDI.The talks collapsed at the last minute, but the progress that had been achieved. -
Revolutions of 1989
As a revolutionary wave that resulted in the end of most communist states in the world.On 4 June 1989, the trade union Solidarity won an overwhelming victory in a partially free election in Poland, leading to the peaceful fall of communism in that country. Also in June 1989, Hungary began dismantling its section of the physical Iron Curtain, while the opening of a border gate between Austria and Hungary in August 1989. -
The fall of the Berlin wall
During the Peaceful Revolution, was a pivotal event in world history which marked the destruction of the Berlin Wall and the figurative Iron Curtain and one of the series of events that started the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe -
Malta summit
A meeting between George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. During the summit, Bush and Gorbachev declared the end of the Cold War. They
agreed to pursue radical cuts in conventional and nuclear weapons systems, with the USSR once again bearing the brunt of the cuts. They quibbled pointlessly on desultory Soviet support for rebel in Latin America. -
The dissolution of the Soviet Union
Soviet parliament banned communism, Yeltsin announced that Soviet Union on longer exists. The Soviet Red banner was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced by the Russian Tricolor