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U.S. boycott of 1980 Summer Olympics
Th soviet union invaded Aghanistan on december 27th 1979, Te united states threatened to boycott the games unless they pulled out of afghanistasn. The games were still boycotted. -
Caribbean Basin Initiative
Ronald Regan announced a new program to give economic, and military assistance to carribean nations. This was to prevent the countries from being overthrown by communist parties. -
Iran-Contra Affair
Ianians only gave america twelve million dollars, when they were supposed to give thirty million dollars. They found out that they were diverting funds from selling weapons to contras -
Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
The SDI was a program for designing a missle defense system. The system would be launched into space, and use satalites to bounce and aim lasers at a missile to disable it. Unfortunately after spending thirty billion dollars, and eight years it yeilded no results. -
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the CommunistParty of the Soviet Union
Mikhail Gorbachev was the general secretary of the soviet union. He started reconstruction, and gave people more freedom of speach -
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty (INF) ratified
The United States and the Soviet Union agree to get rid of a whole class of nuclear missles. They were all ground launched missles with the range between 300-3400 miles. -
Berlin Wall collapses
The Berlin wall was taken down by east germans. They were given the freedom to cross the boarder when ever they pleased by the communist party of East German.
