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Boycott Olympic Game
The United States would boycott the Moscow Olympics if Soviet troops did not withdraw from Afghanistan within one month. The United States wanted the Soviets To do the Right thing. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Also known as The CBI. A unilateral and temporary United States program initiated by the 1983 "Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act." -
Strategic Defense Initiative
Proposed by the United States President Ronald Regan. The initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense. -
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was the Party's first leader to have been born after the Revolution. He tried to reform the stagnating Party and the state economy. -
Iran–Contra affair
Or The Iran-Contra scandal. A political Scandal in the United States that came into view in November 1986. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty
Signed in Washington, D.C. by U.S. President Ronald Reagan and General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev. The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges. -
Berlin Wall
A barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic. The Wall in its entirety was not torn down immediately. -
McDonald's
The arrival of McDonald's in Moscow was a small but certain sign that change was on the horizon. Thirty thousand people visited Moscow’s first McDonald’s on opening day. -
Boris Nikolayevich Yeltsin
He was supported by both democratic and conservative members of the Supreme Soviet. Just days after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, Boris Yeltsin resolved to embark on a program of radical economic reform. Unlike Gorbachev's reforms. -
German reunification
When Berlin reunited into a single city. Germany was officially reunited at 00:00 CET on 3 October 1990. -
Warsaw Pact Disestablished
In Prague, the Czechoslovak President Václav Havel formally ended the 1955 Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance. Disestablished the Warsaw Treaty after 36 years of military alliance with the USSR. -
Dissolution of the Soviet Union
On the previous day, 25 December 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned. Ended because no long of use to people.
