The End of the Cold War
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Updated: 7 Jan 2019
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Created byNicolas Bove
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British Labour Party Returns to PowerSocialists Enter Italian GovernmentKonrad Adenauer Retires as Chancellor of West GermanyBrandt signs Treaty of WarsawBuilding of the Berlin WallJoint U.S-U.S.S.R Space MissionHelsinki AccordsCharter 77 SignedPolish Working Class Angrily ProtestsFirst Oil ShockPope John Paul II ElectedPope John Paul II Preaches of the love of Christ in PolandStrikes Across Poland lead to Lech Walesa and the workers to form Solidarity, a democratic trade unionWalesa accepts minor government concessions and workers drop plan for general strikePolish Martial LawSoviet Invasion of AfghanistanU.S President Reagan Elected, broad shift towards conservatismSoviet Union releases daily updates on ChernobylCongress of People's Deputies RevitalizedWithdrawl of Soviet Troops from AfghanistanReagan and Gorbachev make arms reduction agreements in WashingtonPoland brought to Brink of Economic CollapseSolidarity LegalizedTadeusz Mazowiecki elected Poland's Noncommunist PMMany Polish Price Controls Abolished, Secret Police DisbandedHungarian leader Kadar replaced with a reform minded CommunistHugarian Communist Party allows free electionsBerlin Wall Opened by East German Gov.East German Reform Communists10-Point Plan by Chancellor Kohl to Unify with East GermanyKohl and Gorbachev sign deal in order to merge the GermanysParis AccordCommunist Party defeated in local elections throughout the countryGorbachev resigns, Soviet Union dissolvedPeriods
Much of Western Europe moved politically to the leftThe Brezhnev YearsThe Gorbachev YearsWilly Brandt becomes First Social Democratic West German ChancellorCharles de Gaulle of France Resigns, Centrist Gaullists stay in powerDetenteState spending on Western European Social Programs becomes around 40% of GDPEconomic SlowdownPrague SpringYuri Andropov fails at invigorating the systemVelvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
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