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The End of the Cold War
Created by
Ryan White
⟶ Updated 8 Jan 2019 ⟶
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Events
Socialists enter Italian government
British Labour Party returns to party
Charles de Gaulle resigns
Brandt flies to Poland to reconcile for Germany's actions during WWII
Detente starts to relax Cold War tensions
US-USSR joint space mission
Vaclav Havel and other citizens signed Charter 77
Polish strikes break out
Walesa settles for minor government concessions; Solidarity drops plans for massive general strike
Wojciech Jaruzelski proclaims martial law and arrests Solidarity's leaders
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan to save an unpopular Marxist regime, troops removed Feb 1989
Minority of critical independents elected to a new Congress of People's Deputies
Reagan and Gorbachev agreed to eliminate all land-based intermediate-range missiles in Europe
Widespread strikes, raging inflation, and Solidarity refusal to cooperate with government nearly caused a Polish economic collapse
Solidarity legalized, large minority of reps to Polish parliament chosen by free elections
Tadeusz Mazowiecki becomes Polish PM
Monetary system in Poland reformed;many price controls abolished
Hungarian Communist Party replace Kadar with a reform-minded Communist, free elections in summer of 1989
Berlin Wall opened
Violent revolution in Romania against Ceausescu's dictatorship, coalition government emerged
Paris Accord affirms existing European borders
George H W Bush canceled around the clock alert status for American bombers
Communist Party in USSR defeated in local elections
Boris Yeltsin elected parliamentary leader of RSR (Russian Soviet Republic)
Hardliners captured Gorbachev and his family and tried to seize the Soviet government
Gorbachev resigns, RSR becomes Russian Federation
Periods
Brezhnev Years
Gorbachev Years
Willy Brandt; first Social Democratic West German chancellor
Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
German Unification process