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Warsaw Pact is dissolved
This was a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. The Warsaw Pact included Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union. This was also the answer to NATO. -
U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)
This is also known as Star Wars and was initiated under President Ronald Reagan. This program was ment to develop a sophisticated antiballistic missile system, which would prevent missile attacks from other counties, especially the Soviet Union. -
“Caribbean Basin Initiative”
The Caribbean Basin Initiative is also known as the CBI and came into effect on January 1, 1984. This was aimed to provide many tariff and trade benifits to many Central Americans and Caribbean countries. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev was elected as the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1985. He was the last person to rule the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and died in 1991. -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair was a scandel under President Reagan. In the mid 1980's it was revealed that the United States secretly arranged arms sales to Iran for in return the promises of Iranian assistance in securing the release of the Americans that were held hostage in Lebanon. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) is a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union.The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km (300-3,400 miles). -
Berlin Wall collapses
The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
The opening of the first McDonalds in Moscow shows the Russian people that things were starting to change. For most of the Russian customers it was just an opportunity to enjoy a small pleasure in a country that was still struggling from internal political problems. -
Germany is reunified
The German reunificationact was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic (GDR/East Germany) joined the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG/West Germany) to form the reunited nation of Germany, and reunite Berlin into a single city. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. On 12 June 1991 he was elected by popular vote to the newly created post of President of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), at that time one of the 15 constituent republics of the Soviet Union. -
end of the Soviet Union
he dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration no. 142-Н of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union,[1] acknowledging the independence of the erstwhile Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) – although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all.
