The End of the Cold War

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    Angolan Civil War

  • Soviet aid to Ethiopia began

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

  • Martial law declared in Poland

  • Brezhnev succeeded by Andropov

  • Reagan announced development of Strategic Defence Initiative

  • Gorbachev became USSR party leader

  • USSR-US summit at Reykjavik

  • Soviet troops withdrawn from Afghanistan

  • Elections in Poland

  • Hungary allowed GDR citizens through frontier to Austria

  • Berlin Wall breached

  • Germany reunified

  • Soviet forces intervened in Baltic republics

  • Warsaw Pact dissolved

  • USSR formally dissolved

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