End of the Cold War
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Updated: 8 Jan 2019
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Created bySophia Hitchingham
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Socialists enter the Italian GovernmentKonrad Adenauer (West German Chancellor) RetiresWilly Brandt becomes the first social democratic chancellor of West GermanyWilly Brandt flew to Poland to sign treaty of reconcilliationBuilding of the Berlin WallUSSR USA joint space missionCharter 77 was signed in CxechoslovakiaEconomic Decline beginsCardinal Karol Wojtyla elected pope as John Paul IIPope John Paul II returns to Poland from RomeWalesa and Soviet UNion ConfrontationWojciech Jaruzelski arrested Solidarity leadersSoviet INvasion of AfganistanBrezhnev DiesMikhail Gorbachev becomes Soviet LeaderBy late 1988 consumer dissatisfaction posed a threat to Gorbachev's reform programFree Election in the Soviet Union elect a minority of critical independentsGorbachev withdraws troops from AfganistanWashington Summit on the arms race between USSR and USAWidespread strikes in polandagreement that legalized Solidarity and anounced free elections that juneTadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Polish Prime MinisterPoland reforms monetary system and abolished gov. controls on many pricesHungary replaced Kadar wiht a reform minded communsitKohl's ten point plan for germna unificationGeorge HW Bush cancels around the clock alert for forces with atomic bombs and Gorbachev did the sameBoris Yeltsin was elcted parlimentary leader of the Russian Soviet RepublicGorbachev resignsPeriods
Brezhnev YearsGorbachev YearsWilly Brandt is chancellor of west germnaystrikes broke out across PolandPresident Jimmy carterseries of largely peaceful revolutions sept eastern europeVelvet Revolution
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