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Strategic Defense Initiative.
The Strategic Defense Initiative was proposed by President Reagan. President Reagan had the "vision" of protecting the U.S. from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles (from an enemy) -
Caribbean Basin Initiative.
The Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) was a temporary United States program initiated by :"Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act" The C.B.I. aimed to provide several tariff and trade benefits to many Central American and Caribbean countries. It arose in the context of a U.S. desire to respond with aid and trade to leftist movements that were active in some countries of the same nations. -
U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics.
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was actions initiated by the United States to protest against the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan.It preceded the 1984 Summer Olympics boycott carried out by the Soviet Union and other Communist-friendly countries. -
Iran-Contra Affair.
The Iran–Contra affair, also referred to as Irangate was a political scandal in the United States. During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ratified.
The treaty eliminated nuclear and conventional ground-launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges. Signed by: President Reagan & Mikhail Gorbeachev. -
Berlin Wall collaspes.
Originally the Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic it was used to completely cut off (by land) West Berlin and East Germany.People came to the wall with sledgehammers or otherwise hammers and chisels to chip off souvenirs, demolishing lengthy parts of it in the process and creating several unofficial border crossings. These people were nicknamed "Mauerspechte" (wall woodpeckers). -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow.
People line up to pay the equivalent of several days' wages for Big Macs, shakes, and french fries .The appearance of capitalism recieved from the Russian people were signs that times were changing in the Soviet Union. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
He was the seventh and last undisputed leader of the Soviet Union . Mikhail Gorbachev also served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, -
Germany is reunified.
Was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany. This helped form the reunited nation of Germany, once again! -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved.
The treaty was disbanded, during the violent revolution in Romania that toppled the communist government. Then in 1991, it was declared disbanded at a meeting of defense and foreign ministers from Pact countries meeting in Hungary. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia.
Originally a supporter of Mikhail Gorbachev. Yeltsin emerged under the supported reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. When Mikhail Gorbachev resigned Boris Yelstin was assigned. -
end of the Soviet Union.
The increasing political unrest led the establishment of the Soviet Union Military and the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to attempt a new leader: Mikhail Gorbachev and re-establish a strong central. Soviet Union led to the end of decades-long hostility between NATO and the Warsaw Pact, which had been the defining feature of the Cold War.
