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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott of the Moscow Olympics was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion in Afghanistan. -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Was a unilateral and temporary United States program initiated by the 1983 Caribbean Basin Economic Recovery Act. -
Iran-Contra Affair
Was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union
Was the title given to the leader of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. With some exceptions, the office was synonymous with leader of the Soviet Union. -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty ratified
Agreement between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Berlin wall collaspse
Was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989, constructed by the German Democratic Republic, started on the 13th of August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. -
1st McDonalds opens in Moscow
The arrival of McDonald’s in Moscow was a small but certain sign that change was on the horizon. In fact, less than two years later, the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as leader of the country, and various Soviet republics proclaimed their independence. As the American newsman reported, the first Russian McDonald’s customers “had seen the future, and it works, at least as far as their digestive tract. -
Boris Yelstin elected President of Russia
reforms as one of Gorbachev's most powerful political opponents. On 29 May 1990 he was elected the chairman of the Russian Supreme Soviet. -
Germany is reunified
The German reunification was the process in 1990 in which the German Democratic Republic joined the Federal Republic of Germany to form the reunited nation -
Warsaw Pact is dissolved
treaty among eight communist states
