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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics was one of many ways to try and avoid the Soviet Unions invasion against Afghanistan. The Soviet Union and other countries would later support the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), is also known as star wars. It was a program that had an intension to develope an anti-ballistic missile to prevent missile attacks on us (the U.S.). -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
The Caribbean Basin Initiative was created to provied tariff and trade benefits to Central American and Caribbean countries. This program was initiated by the Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act (CBERA). -
Iran-Contra Affair
The Iran-Contra Affair was a scandal, which later on became a good thing. People found out that Ronald Reagan secretly arranged arms sales to Iran in return for promises of Iranian assistance in securing the release of Americans held hostage in Lebanon. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
The Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty of 1987 (INF) was the first Nuclear Weapons agreement requiring the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) to reduce, rather than merely limit, their arsenals of nuclear weapons. -
Berlin Wall Fall
The spokesman of East Berlin (who was communist) did not provide citizens in Berlin with freedom, therefore having the Berlin Wall. At midnight on November 9, 1989 he said citizens were free to cross the wall. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
Boris Yelstin was elected president of Russia in 1990. He criticized the slow pace of Mikhail Gorbachev 's reforms. And later on, became one of the most powerful and remembered person in the foremer Soviet Union. -
First McDonalds in Moscow
McDonalds was granted permission in 1988 to start a McDonalds by the Communist party on Soviet Territory. Two years later, one was established. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Gorbachev was the eighth, and last, leader of the Soviet Union. He was the only General Secretary in the history of the Soviet Union to be born after the October Revolution. -
Germany Reunited
Process in which the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany joined together. This formed to unity of Germany, the end of the unification process is referred to as "Germany Unity". -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
The Warsaw Pact was a military alliance of communist nations in eastern Europe. It was dissolved in 1991. -
End of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union ended, and that created more individual states. Mikhail Gorbachev resigned from his position and handed down his powers, to Russian President Boris Yeltsin. After that, the Soviet flag was taken down and replaced by a Russian flag.
