The End of the Cold War (D)

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    End of the Cold War

  • Soviets invade Afghanistan & Carter issues Carter Doctrine

  • Polish Solidarity Movement

  • U.S. boycotts the Moscow Olympic Games

  • Carter loses reelection & Reagan becomes President-elect

  • Detente officially over

  • Reagan inaugurated

  • Deng Xiaoping's protege becomes Chinese premier

  • Poland institues martial law under General Jaruzelski

  • Deng has consolidated power & "4 modernizations"

  • Brezhnev dies & Andropov takes power

  • Reagan gives "evil empire" speech & begins SDI

  • Korean airliner shot down by Soviets

  • US invades Grenada

  • NATO exercises

  • 90% of farms in China are under the "Household Responsbility System"

  • Andropov dies, Cherneko Soviet premier

  • 2nd phase of China's 4 modernizations underway

  • Cherenko dies, Gorbachev becomes Soviet premier

  • Gorbachev & Reagan meet in Geneva

  • Chernobyl nuclear accident

  • Gorbachev begins perestroika

  • Summit in Iceland (Gorbachev & Reagan)

  • Chinese student protestes growing

  • Glasnost in USSR, Gorbachev reforms the politburo

  • Hu Yaobang ousted from CCP

  • Reagan states "Mr. G tear down this wall"

  • INF Treaty signed to reduce weaponry

  • widespread strikes in Poland

  • Gorbachev gives non-ideological speech & amends constitution

  • Hu Yaobang dies which sparks Tiananmen Square

  • Elections in Poland, massacre in China

  • mass exodus of E. Germans to Hungary

  • 40th anniversary celebration in E. Germany

  • Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia, Berlin Wall falls

  • Germany reunited

  • many former Eastern bloc states declare indpendence

  • Gorbachev ousted by Yeltsin

  • Final collapse of USSR