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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
It was a boycott during the Moscow Olympics. It happened because the United States was protesting against the Soviet Union invasion in Afghanistan. -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)
It was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan. Use ground-based and spaced based systems to protect the U.S. from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. -
“Caribbean Basin Initiative”
It was a unilateral and temporary United States program. Also known as the CBI. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
He was a former Soviet Statesman. He was the seventh and the last undisputed leader of the Soviet Union. -
Iran-Contra Affair
It was during the Regan administration. The senor administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
It was an agreement between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. It was signed by President Ronald Reagan. -
Berlin Wall collapses
The berlin wall was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany. It was a symbolic boundry between democracy and communism. -
Germany is reunified
It was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany. -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
It was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe. The founding treaty was established under the initiative of the Soviet Union. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
He was a Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation. -
End of the Soviet Union
The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980's was a great blow to the hopes of revolutionaries. The primary causes were political and economic and they were the result of the culture of war. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
It opened in Moscow on Pushkinskaya square. It served over 30 thousand vistors.
