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Gorbachev becomes Party General Secretary
he was the leader that introduced the russian words "perestroika" and "glasnost". perestroika meaning restructuring and glasnost meaning openess. -
Nuclear Arms Race
The Soviet Union was competing with the U.S. to see who had the most nuclear weapons. That made the Soviet Union look alot of money. -
Perestroika starts in eastern
Perestroika moves from concept to best-seller, as Gorbachev publishes a book about his reforms in November. It goes on sale around the world. -
Warsaw Pact
Gorbachev announces that countries in the Warsaw Pact are free to decide on their own futures. Across Eastern Europe people want change and are expressing that they want it, so the government listened, -
Berlin wall destroyed
The berilin wall was torn down by the people's power. And the world still sees Gorbachev as a hero -
Afghanistan war
Soviet Union gets in a war with Afghanistan. And the war made them lose alot of money. -
New Congress
For the first time since 1917 the Soviet Union let the people vote for their congress and the people voted for a new Congress of Peoples Deputie. -
Boris Yeltsin resigns
Boris Yeltsin publicly resigns from the Communist Party. Gorbachev is collapsing nd he has 2 choices either a radical reform package or a much more cautious plan from his own prime minister, Nikolai Ryzhkov. -
Soviet Union collapse
The Soviet Union collapsed because they were loseing money and people wante freedom. And the poeple wanted a democratic government not a communist government
