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Warsaw Pact is dissolved
a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. -
Berlin Wall collapses
constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin -
U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by ballistic strategic nuclear weapons (Intercontinental ballistic missiles and Submarine-launched ballistic missiles). -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
aimed to provide several tariff and trade benefits to many Central American and Caribbean countries. -
Iran-Contra Affair
was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.Senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, which was the subject of an arms embargo. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
The Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles. -
Germany is reunified
to form the reunited nation of Germany, and when Berlin reunited into a single city, as provided by its then Grundgesetz constitution Article 23 -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
Throngs of people line up to pay the equivalent of several days’ wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist
is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
Yeltsin emerged under the perestroika reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. at that time one of the 15 constituent republics of the Soviet Union. -
end of sovit union
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers.
