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Richard Nixon and policy of Detente
Nixon was the first president to visit Moscow. Detente means release from tension in french. On May 22 Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow. -
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Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, invasion of Afghanistan in late December 1979 by troops from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union intervened in support of the Afghan communist government in its conflict with anticommunist Muslim guerrillas during the Afghan War (1978–92) and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. -
Ronald Reagan addresses the national association of Evangelicals
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Strategic Defense Initiative "Star Wars"
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. With the tension of the Cold War looming overhead, the Strategic Defense Initiative was the United States’ response to possible nuclear attacks from afar. -
Summit of Geneva, Switzerland
President Reagan and Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev met to talk about doplomatic relations and the arms race. -
Reagan speech at Bandenberg
President Reagan spoke at the Brandenburg Gate of the Berlin Wall about the state of relations between East and West Europe, calling on Soviet President Gorbachev to tear down the wall. -
Reagan and the INF Treaty
The INF Treaty was signed by President Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev at a Washington Summit on December 8, 1987
(Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces [INF] )
The INF Treaty eliminated all nuclear-armed ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with ranges between 500 and 5,500 kilometers (about 300 to 3400 miles) -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
On this day at midnight people were allowed and able to cross the berlin wall to the other side -
Fall of the Soviet Union
The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II.
