The Wall Comes Down: The End of Soviet Rule in Eastern Europe, 1989

By carlarf88

  • The Soviets invade Czechoslovakia

  • Shootings of the strikes in Gdansk

    Poland

  • Havel's Open Letter to Husak

    Czechoslovakia

  • Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia

  • in response of the drastic economic crisis of Poland, the KOR (Worker’s Defense Committee) launched the first free trade union in Gdansk.

  • Pope John Paul II visits Poland and shows his support of the Solidarity

  • Jarulzeski comes to power in Poland

  • Likhail Gorbachev comes to power in the Soviet Union

  • Gorbachev called for economic perestroika

  • Gorbachev’s rejection of the Brezhnev Doctrine

  • secret meeting between Walesa and the Government

  • The Solidarity is allowed a minority in the government