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Stategic Defense Initiative proposed by Reagan
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Mikhail Gorbachev rises to power over USSR.
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Oil prices and production fall steeply from 1985
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Soviet satelitte aid ended by Gorbachev
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Withdraw of Soviet troops from Afghanistan
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Polands solidarity movement wins election
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Communist Governments fall along with the Berlin wall
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East and West Germany re-unite
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USSR declared dissolved along with the Warsaw Pact
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USSR pulls out all troops from Warsaw Pact nations