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Warsaw Pact is dissolved
It was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.After the collapse of the USSR and the end of the Cold War, the alliance was transformed into the subsequent Collective Security Treaty Organization. -
U.S boycott the Summer Olympoics
The U.S boycott of the Sumer Olympoics. In total 65 nations refused to participate in the game. Oppose to the 80 contries that sent athletes to compete. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
The Caribbean Basin initative was the US pladging assistance in increasing Caribbean trade. Reagan announced that it would be a new program of economic and military assistance to nations of the coribbean. -
The Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (Star wars) was proposed by president Reagan to use ground based and space based systems to protect the US. It was renamed in 1984 -
Iran-Contra Affair
The scandal began as an operation to free the seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by a group with Iranian ties connected to the Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
An agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev on 8 December 1987, it was ratified by the United States Senate on 27 May 1988 and came into force on 1 June of that year. -
Berlin Wall collapses
constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
In 1988 McDonalds got a permission from the Communist party to start the business on the territory of the Soviet Union. Two years later the first restaurant opened its doors in Moscow on Pushkinskaya square. At dawn on 31 January 1990 more than 5 thousand people came to be the first at its opening. That day Moscow McDonald's set a world record: it served more than 30 thousand visitors. -
Waesaw Pact Dissolved
Was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. The Warsaw Pact was the military complement to the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, the regional economic organization for the communist States of Central and Eastern Europe. -
End of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991, as a result of the declaration of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. Acknowledging the independence of the erstwhile Soviet republics and creating the Commonwealth of Independent States although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned. -
End of the Soviet Union
Although five of the signatories ratified it much later or not at all. On the previous day, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, the eighth and last leader of the Soviet Union, resigned, declared his office extinct, and handed over its powers -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbache,General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was the title given to the leader of the comunist party of the Soviet union.
