End of Cold War Timeline

U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics

Jun 1, 1980

This was an action taken by the united states to protest the Soviet Unions invasion of afgahanstan. This boycott included 14 different countries.

Strategic Defense Initiative

Mar 23, 1983

This was a program initiated under the authority of Ronald Regan. The point of this was to have a system that prevented missile attacks from the Soviet Union.

Caribbean Basin Initiative

Jan 1, 1984

This initiative aimed to provide several tarrifs to many caribbean and central american countries. The united states desire was to respond with aid and trade

Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union 5

Feb 17, 1985

He was elected general secretary in 1985. He became the first president of the Soviet Union in 1990, and won the Nobel Prize for Peace that same year.

iran-contra affair

Aug 4, 1985

This was the name given to secret illegal actions by government officials under Ronald Regans authority. The National Security Council sold military weapons to Iran so it would help in freeing US prisoners in Lebanon

Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty

Apr 17, 1987

abbreviation INF Treaty, nuclear-arms-control accord reached by the United States and the Soviet Union in 1987 in which those two nations agreed to eliminate their stocks of intermediate-range and shorter-range land-based missiles.

Berlin Wall collapses

Nov 9, 1989

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

Jan 31, 1990

Russians line up as the first McDonald's restaurant opens in Pushkin Square at the end of the Cold War.

Germany is reunified

May 11, 1990

The German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation of Germany.

Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia

Feb 1, 1991

In June of 1991, Yeltsin became the first popularly elected president of the independent RSFSR, now Russia. After Russia took the USSR’s seat in the United Nations, Gorbachev resigned and Yeltsin took over and eliminated the CPSU.

Warsaw Pact is dissolved

Mar 31, 1991

the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites—comes to an end.

End of the Soviet Union

Dec 13, 1991

The dissolution of the Soviet Union was formally enacted on December 26, 1991. This was the result of germany coming together and uniting against the soviet union.