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Rule of The Soviet Union
http://goo.gl/SBCvXThe soviet union marked the end of the Bolsheviks reighn and the end of socialism and the begin of communism. this was because of economic problems and the change was supposed to help but eventually marked the end of the USSR. The Soviet Union was no more and many, many people all around the world celebrated this. -
Building of the Berlin Wall
http://goo.gl/Bok01http://goo.gl/JqxTxThe Berlin Wall was built in the dead of night on the 13th of August in 1961; it separated East and West Germany. It also symbolized the line or border between communism and democracy and the struggle for power between the two. The living conditions in West Germany and East Germany were completely different. West Germany became the “economic miracle” and East Germany became an extremely Communist society. -
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Ronald Reagans Presidency
http://goo.gl/yJbcMRonald Reagan became America's president in 1981 and stayed president for 2 terms until 1989. He was a very influencial president going towards the end of the USSR. He spoke with President Mikhail Gorbachev gave him ideas with how to push democracy in his nation. President Reagan got out of office in January and the USSR fell in December. -
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Mikhail Gorbachev
http://goo.gl/SBCvXMikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the communist party of the Soviet Union in March 1985. He was a very popular choice because he was young and he desired a change for the Soviet Union. Also, Gorbachev introduced a wide ranging program of reform. His major reforms were glasnost, perestroika and democratization. These reforms allowed the problems of the USSR to be uncovered and become public knowledge. Gorbachev was in office for general secretary of the USSR until August 24, 1991. -
Boris Yeltsin
http://goo.gl/XqVZ3Mikhail Gorbachev appointed Boris Yeltsin, a little known provincial party boss as the head of the Moscow communist party. Boris Yeltsin, just like Mikhail Gorbachev, believed in change. He began sacking officials and axe privileges that party stalwarts have enjoyed for many years. And in July 1990, Boris Yeltsin publicly resigned from the Communist party. -
Perestroika faces problems
http://goo.gl/XqVZ3"Perestroika" which was a political movement for the communist party in the Soviet Union faced many problems throughout the year of 1988. A communist newspaper called Sovetskaya Rossiya tells all of its readers to not follow Gorbachev's reforms. But through these hardships, Gorbachev still carries on with Perestroika. -
Yeltsin elected to parliament
http://goo.gl/XqVZ3There were elections held for a new parliament called the Congress of People's Deputies and Boris Yeltsin, a very popular candidate was elected. The live television broadcasts of parliament were so popular, they had to stop showing them on television because millions and millions of workers had stopped working in order to watch. -
Fall of The Berlin Wall
http://goo.gl/6L7Xehttp://goo.gl/JqxTxOn the 9th of November of 1989 the Berlin Wall started being broken down. This symbolized the fall and breaking down of communism and that the democracy of West Germany had won in the power struggle against East Germany. This was a world wide peace event because it ended the seperation between East and West Germany. People all aroud the world were celebrating the triumphs of the East Germany citizens -
Gorbachev wins Nobel Peace Prize
http://goo.gl/KTFBmPresident Mikhail Gorbachev won the Nobel Peace Prize on the 16 of October, 1990. THe Nobel Peace Prize comitee said that he won the award for, "his leading role in the peace process". President Bush of the United States congratulated Gorbachev for having brought, "historically significant change, both political and economic, to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe". -
End of the Soviet Union
http://goo.gl/1KYS8http://goo.gl/SBCvXOn Christmas Day of 1991, the Soviet Union officially ended its own existence, marking the end of over 70 years of repression and 45 years of Soviet-American conflict." The collapse of the Soviet Union was celebrated all over the world, but especially in the west, because it was a symbolism for freedom and a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism and capitalism over socialism.
