End of THE Cold War

By Cheshire F

  • Richard nixon and policy of detente

    The term is often used in reference to the general easing of the geo-political tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States which began in 1969, as a foreign policy of U.S. presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford called détente

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

    Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
    The Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eigh.

  • Ronald Reagan addreses the national association of Evangelicals

    Ronald Reagan addreses the national association of Evangelicals
    It was about president Ronald Reagan giving a speech about how communism was corrupting our modern world

  • Strategic Defense Initiative

    Strategic Defense Initiative
    was proposed by U.S. President Ronald Reagan on March 23, 1983,[1] to use ground-based and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

  • Summin in geneva, Switzerland

    A meeting in the Cold War era and was a meeting of "The Big Four"

  • Reagan's speech at Brandenburg gate west berlin wall

    Reagan's speech at Brandenburg gate west berlin wall
    "Tear down this wall". It was the challenge to the soviet union to tear down the berlin wall as an emblem of Gorbachev's desire to increase freedom in the Eastern Bloc through glasnost ("transparency") and perestroika ("restructuring").

  • Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty

    Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF treaty
    The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km. "Reagan and Gorbachev Sign Missile Treaty and Vow to Work for Greater Reductions"

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    Twenty-nine months later, on November 9, 1989, after increasing public unrest, East Germany finally opened the Berlin Wall. By the end of the year, official operations to dismantle the wall began. With the collapse of the Communist governments of Eastern Europe and, eventually, the Soviet Union itself, the tearing down of the wall epitomized the collapse for history