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End of cold war

By Kyle Maynard

  • 1st McDonalds opens in Moscow

    1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
    Kroc's first McDonald's restaurant opened on April 15, 1955, at 400 North. Will overshadow the current largest McDonald's in the world in Moscow, Russia.

  • Berlin Wall collapses

    Berlin Wall collapses
    The Berlin Wall is dramatically breached after nearly three decades of keeping East and West Berliners apart.

  • U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics

    U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
    On this day in 1980, President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer.

  • Iran-Contra Affair

    Iran-Contra Affair
    Also referred to as Irangate, Contragate or the Iran–Contra scandal. Secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling.

  • Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)

    Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)
    President Reagan proposed the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), an ambitious project that would construct a space-based object.

  • “Caribbean Basin Initiative”

    “Caribbean Basin Initiative”
    The Caribbean Basin Initiative is not a trade agreement. Rather, it is a non-reciprocal grant, by statute of a cold war “anti-communism.''

  • Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist

    Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist
    As general secretary of the Communist Party, Gorbachev became one of the Politburo’s most highly active and visible members.

  • Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified

    Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
    The United States tabled a draft INF Treaty text, which ... Because of concerns raised by the Senate during the ratification hearings

  • Germany is reunified

    A strong drive for reunification developed in East and West Germany in 1990. In East Germany, conservative parties supporting reunification won the elections.

  • Warsaw Pact is dissolved

    So named because the treaty was signed in Warsaw. On March 1991, the military alliance component of the pact was dissolved.

  • Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia

    Millions of Russians went to the polls for the first time in an open election to choose a president.

  • end of the Soviet Union

    Dissolution of the state also marked an end to the Cold War. Which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II.