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Democratization of Eastern European Communist Bloc nation
Eastern Bloc was the group of communist states of Central and Eastern Europe, generally the Soviet Union and the countries of the Warsaw Pact. -
START 1
negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union (and, later, Russia) that were aimed at reducing those two countries’ arsenals of nuclear warheads and of the missiles and bombers capable of delivering such weapons. -
Détente
a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 -
SALT Talks
two rounds of bilateral conferences and corresponding international treaties involving the United States and the Soviet Union -
President Nixon visits China
he visits china -
Perestroika
the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. -
Polish Solidarity Movement
In the early 1980s, it became the first independent labor union in a Soviet-bloc country -
Berlin Wall Falls
the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. -
Glasnost
the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985 -
INF Treaty
Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, a 1987 agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union -
Commonwealth of Independent States is created
nations under the control of the soviet union get out of the soviet union control -
German Reunites
Germany comes back together -
Boris Yeltsin
served as the president of Russia from 1991 until 1999. -
. Coup against Mikhail Gorbachev
The coup attempt signified a decline in Gorbachev’s power and influence, while one of his most ardent opponents, Boris Yeltsin, came out of the event with more power than ever.
