The Fall of the Soviet Union

  • The Berlin Wall falls

  • Soviet election, and pressure from Communist elite group

  • At the Moscow Summit, President Bush signed the START treaty

  • Soviet tanks enter Lithuania and Latvia

  • There was an attempted coup against Gorbachev

  • The Cooperative Threat Reduction Program was put into place

  • The U.S. released 5 principles for rising republics

  • Russian tricolor in Kremlin

  • Leaders in Kazakhstan and Ukraine come to Washington

  • Baker went to Russian republics