Fall of the Soviet Union

By mg17317
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  • USSR enters war with Afghanistan

  • Reagan becomes president

  • Strategic Defensive Initiative enacted

  • Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party

  • Glasnost and Perestroika are introduced

  • Chernobyl nuclear accident

  • INF Treaty is signed

  • The last Soviet troops leave Afghanistan

  • Berlin Wall falls

  • 500 Day Plan enacted

  • All remaining Soviet states secede from the USSR