timeline

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Communist leaders were upset with Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Leader, for backing down from the United States at the brink of warfare.
  • Leonid Brezhnev

    Leonid Brezhnev
    arresting dissidents or people who protested government policies in any way Explain the policy of arresting dissidents.to dissent might even include a novel or painting that showed a way of life that communist leaders disapproved of.
  • Brezhnev Doctrine

    Brezhnev Doctrine
  • The Soviet Union

    The Soviet Union
    agrees to enter into a policy of détente with the United States.
  • Within the Soviet Union

  • Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty

  • Mikhail Gorbachev

  • The Perestroika Program

  • The Perestroika Program

  • The Policy of Glasnost