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Reagan's Defense Programme
$1.5 trillion. Included funds for the MX ICBM, Trident II SLBM, and Strategic Defense Initiative -
Pope John Paul II Visits Poland
Inspired religious nationalism, hence contributing to the growth of anti-communism and nationalist feeling in Poland. -
Gorbachev Gains Power
Announced a temporary moratorium on nuclear testing. Also fired long-time Soviet foreign minister and hardliner Andrei Gromyko and replaced him with reformist Eduard Shevardnadze. -
Reykjyavik Summit
Gorbachev accepted Reagan's zero option plan and even proposed the abolishment of all nuclear weapons within 10 years. Reagan the cyka blat refused to scrap the SDI. -
INF Treaty
Decreed the total elimination of an entire class of nuclear weapons already in operation. Also drastically reduced Soviet nuclear weapons assumetrically to the US (1836 Soviet missiles vs 867 US missiles) -
Gorbachev's UN Speech
Endored the priniciple of freedom of choice. and announced a unilateral reduction of Soviet armed forces by half a million men in 2 years, and substantial cuts in tanks and combat aircraft in Eastern Europe. --> Signalled to the Eastern Europeans that the USSR was willing to let go. -
Solidarity Wins Polish Elections
Marked the end of the Cold War as defined by the division in Europe. -
Fall of Berlin Wall
Captured the public's attention and marked the end of the Cold War as defined by the division in Europe. -
Union Treaty Signed
Accorded gretaer autonomy to the Soviet republics -
Secession of Baltic States from the USSR
Lithuania, Latvia, followed by Estonia. -
CFE Treaty Signed
(Conventional Armed Forces in Europe) prescribed substantial reductions in Soviet conventional weapons. -
August Coup
Destroys Gorbachev's reputation whilst cementing Boris Yeltsin's. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
USSR bo liao :( -
Soviet Reunion
Annexation of Crimea Cyka Blat
