-
Richard Nixon and Policy of Detente
It was a period in time where the United States and Soviet Union improved thier relaions. They both contries wanted to increace trade and the danger of a nuclear warfare to be reduced. -
Period: to
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
It was a war against the Afghanistan government, that was supported by the Soviet Union, and the Afghanistan rebels called the Mujahideen. The Afghanistan government was communist and the Mujahideen was anticommunism. The United States supported the Mujahideen to stop the spread of communism. -
Solidarity Movement in Poland (Lech Walesa)
It was a nonviolent struggle against the communist government in Poland. Eventually, they sucseffuly negotiated an agreement that made Poland's government to becoming a democracy. -
Ronald Reagan addresses the National Association of Evangelicals
His speech, Evil Empire, was used to discribe the Soviet Union. It explained to the people why the United States and the Soviet Union is in this copition to see who is the best. "The Western world can answer this challenge, he wrote, “but only provided that its faith in God and the freedom He enjoins is as great as communism’s faith in Man.” " -
Strategic Defencse Initiative ("Star Wars")
This program purpose was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system to prevent missile attacks from other contries like the Soviet Union. Due to the Cold War tension rising, there may be a chance of nuclear war, so the United States has to be prepaired to defend against any attacks. -
Summit in Geneva, Switzerland
United States President Ronald Reagan and the Soviiet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met and held a meeting at Geneva, Switxerland. They discued about international diplomatic relations and the arms race. -
Reykjavik Summit, Iceland
A meeting between the United Stated President Ronald Reagan and Gerneral Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev. They both nogotiated with a new treaty called the Intermediate-Ranged Nuclear Forces Treaty. This treaty elimated nuclear and conventional ground-lauched ballistic and cruse missiles with intermediate ranges. -
Reagan speech at Brandenberg Gate, West Berlin
President Ronald Reagan's "Tear down this wall" speech was telling the Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev to destroy the Berlin Wall. Eventually the walls came down due to the increasing public unrest. -
Reagan and Gorbachev sign INF Treaty
President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev nogotiaged a treaty to end their intermediate-ranged and shorter-range misslies. Both destroyed nuclear and coventional ground-launched ballistic missiles to end the posiblity of having a nuclear war. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
After many protest on the wall, the wall fell apart. The wall was taken apart for East Germans and West Germans to become one again. -
Gorbachev, Perestroika, Glasnost
-
Fall of Soviet Union
The Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev resigns from office causes the Soviet Union to become no more. A new leader rose to power and the government was no longer communist and the Cold War ended.
