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Baltic
website The first region to produce mass, organized dissent was the Baltic. The term Baltic states (also Baltics, Baltic nations or Baltic countries) refers to the Baltic territories which gained independence from the Russian Empire in the wake of World War I: primarily the contiguous trio of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (from north to south); Finland also fell within the scope of the term in the 1920s, after initially gaining independence. -
Power of Mikhail Gorbachev
Website The rise of the power of Mikhail Gorbachev, the Soviet Union’s last leader, the country was in a situation of severe stagnation, with deep economic and political problems which sorely needed to be addressed and overcome. He wanted to bring the USSR out of it's crisis, and alleviate the issues represented by the government. -
New Boss
Website Gorbachev appoints a little-known provincial party boss as head of the Moscow Communist Party. His name is Boris Yeltsin. Eduard Shevardnadze, head of the Communist Party in the republic of Georgia. He has become foreign minister, replacing the veteran - and hardline - Andrei Gromyko.Shervardnadze, like Gorbachev, believes in creating a more liberal and dynamic society. -
Soviet satellite
Website Gorbachev ends economic aid to Soviet satellite. Soviet satellite states refers to Communist satellite states of the Soviet Union, in the Eastern block.The soviet satellite lost all the funding, along with the support needed to get through the fall of the soviet union. This is a factor contributing to the fall of the USSR. -
Agreement
Website Reagan and Gorbachev agree to remove all medium and short-range nuclear missiles by signing a treaty. The use of nuclear missiles is used only for the severities of war, and dessication will be prominant if they had not signed a treaty indicating that war between them would be terminated and no longer in admission. -
Berlin Wall
Website The symbol of the Cold War,The Berlin Wall, falls It was torn down by "people power". People watch as families and neighbors are reunited. Months before if people tried to break the wall they would have been shot. Czechoslovakia breaks free of Soviet Union. as the year comes to an end, Romanians also go for revolution. -
Loses Hold
Website The East German communist party loses its hold in congressional
elections, and in October, re-unites with West Germany. West Germany and East Germany has been apart for a great deal amount of time, so considering this event had happened is that this event was not intended to occur. Germany has remained united to this day. http://goo.gl/0yTpS -
Moscow
Website Gorbachev is on the edge of signing a deal to the republics, giving them freedom. The plotters make their move. Some of Gorbachev's closest and most senior colleagues are among them, and with military chiefs and the head of the KGB. Tanks come into Moscow and locate in strategic positions. The day before the coup, the plotters travelled to ask him to declare a state of emergency. He refuses and they put him on house arrest until the coup collapses. -
Seperates
Website The Soviet Union separated into 15 different countries in Russia. These 15 countries were known as Soviet Republics in the Soviet Union. The Republics gained their independency by invoking democracy, nationalism, or a combination of both within themselves until they were finally able to secede completely. -
End
Website Gorbachev resigned from political power realizing he was no longer in control of the population.Gorbachev goes on television to announce he is stepping down as Soviet president. The Soviet flag is lowered from the Kremlin for the last time, and the white, blue and red tricolour of the Russian Federation flies in its place. The USSR is no more. -
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