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End of the Cold War
Created by
Michelle Waksman
⟶ Updated 8 Jan 2019 ⟶
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Early Russian History
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Events
Socialists Join the Italian Government
Willy Brandt Signs a Treaty of Reconciliation with Poland
Helsinki Accords
Protest Movements Re-emerge in Poland and Czechoslovakia
Charter 77
Poland's Economy Begins to Fail, Result of Massive Influx of Western Tech and Goods
Strikes Across Poland
Gdansk Agreement
Solidarity Union
Solidarity Settles for Minor Government Concessions, Cancels Massive Strike
Jaruzelski (General in Control of Poland's Communist government) Declares Martial Law and Arrests the Leaders of Solidarity
Soviets Invade Afghanistan
Reagan Increases Spending and Sends Missiles to Afghanistan
Yuri Andropov Replaces Brezhnev, Accomplishes Very Little
Perestroika
Consumers Were Unhappy with Perestroika, Threatened Gorbachev
Glasnost
Democratization --> First Free Election in the USSR since 1917
Gorbachev Withdraws from Afghanistan
Gorbachev and Reagan Agree to Remove All Land-Based Immediate-Range Missiles in Europe
Poland on the Brink of Economic Collapse
Solidarity Union is Legalized, Gets All but One Contested Seat in Parliament
Mazowiecki is Sworn in as Poland's 1st non-Communist Prime Minister
Solidarity Government Abolished Controls on Prices and Reformed the Monetary System
Hungary's Leader, Kadar, Liberalizes Hungary
The Party Replaces Kadar with a Reform-Minded Communist
Hungarian Government Agrees to Hold Free Elections
Hungary Tears Down barbed Wire on its Austrian Border, East Germans Went Through Austria and Hungary to West Germany
East Germany Opens the Berlin Wall
Velvet Revolution
Romanian Dictator Ceausescu has the Military Repress Protest, Causes an Armed Uprising
East Germany is Taken Over by Reform Communists
W. German Chancellor Kohl Created a Detailed Plan for Unification with E. Germany that Also Cooperated with the International Community
Kohl Agrees to Gorbachev's Demands to Peaceful Intentions and to not Create Nuclear Weapons
W. and E. Germany Reunite
Paris Accord
George H. W. Bush Cancels Constant Alert Status for American Atomic Bombers; Gorbachev Followed
Communist Party is Defeated in Elections Across the USSR
Boris Yeltsin Replaces Gorbachev After being Elected, He is a Reform Communist
Attempted Coup Against Gorbachev
Gorbachev Resigns
Yeltsin Declares Russia Independent
Periods
Brezhnev Years
Gorbachev Years
Social Democrats Run the West German Government *Brandt it the first chancellor*
Detente
Cardinal Karol Wojtyla --> Pope John II
