The End of the Cold War
Category: Otro
Actualizado: 8 ene 2019
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Created byRyan White
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Socialists enter Italian governmentBritish Labour Party returns to partyCharles de Gaulle resignsBrandt flies to Poland to reconcile for Germany's actions during WWIIDetente starts to relax Cold War tensionsUS-USSR joint space missionVaclav Havel and other citizens signed Charter 77Polish strikes break outWalesa settles for minor government concessions; Solidarity drops plans for massive general strikeWojciech Jaruzelski proclaims martial law and arrests Solidarity's leadersSoviet invasion of Afghanistan to save an unpopular Marxist regime, troops removed Feb 1989Minority of critical independents elected to a new Congress of People's DeputiesReagan and Gorbachev agreed to eliminate all land-based intermediate-range missiles in EuropeWidespread strikes, raging inflation, and Solidarity refusal to cooperate with government nearly caused a Polish economic collapseSolidarity legalized, large minority of reps to Polish parliament chosen by free electionsTadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Polish PMMonetary system in Poland reformed;many price controls abolishedHungarian Communist Party replace Kadar with a reform-minded Communist, free elections in summer of 1989Berlin Wall openedViolent revolution in Romania against Ceausescu's dictatorship, coalition government emergedParis Accord affirms existing European bordersGeorge H W Bush canceled around the clock alert status for American bombersCommunist Party in USSR defeated in local electionsBoris Yeltsin elected parliamentary leader of RSR (Russian Soviet Republic)Hardliners captured Gorbachev and his family and tried to seize the Soviet governmentGorbachev resigns, RSR becomes Russian FederationPeríodos
Brezhnev YearsGorbachev YearsWilly Brandt; first Social Democratic West German chancellorVelvet Revolution in CzechoslovakiaGerman Unification process
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