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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
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Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) (“Star Wars”)
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“Caribbean Basin Initiative”
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Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist
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Iran-Contra Affair
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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
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Berlin Wall collapses
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1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
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Germany is reunified
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Warsaw Pact is dissolved
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Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
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end of the Soviet Union
