End of Cold War
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Updated: 8 Jan 2019
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Created byGweneth Child
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Charles de Gaulle resignsBrandt signs treaty of reconciliation and visits ghetto memorialsHelsinki AccordsCharter 77 signedCardinal Karol Wojtyla elected pope as John Paul IIJohn Paul II returns to Poland from Rome preaching about inalienable rights of man and the love of ChristSolidarity driven underground by Polish communist leader JaruzelskiWalesa settles for minor government concessions and Solidarity drops plans of massive general strikeSoviet invasion of AfghanistanChernobylCongress of People's Deputies formedSoviet troops withdrawn from AfghanistanUS and Soviet Union agree to eliminate all land-based intermediate-range missiles in EuropePoland on brink of collapse due to strikes and the Solidarity's refusal to cooperate with the military governmentAgreement signed that Solidarity was legalized and that a large minority of representatives to the polish parliament would be electedMazowiecki elected as new noncommunist prime minister of PolandPolish government abolishes controls on many pricesHungarian Communist Party agrees to hold free elections the following MarchBerlin Wall opensKohl presents a ten-point plan for step-by-step unification in cooperation with both East Germany and the international communityNew
eventAllies win nearly 50% of votes in East German parliamentary electionEast and West Germany merge into one nationParis AccordBoris Yeltsin elected as parliamentary leader of the Russian Soviet PublicGorbachev resignsend of Soviet Unionattempted coup of Gorbachev's governmentPeriods
Brezhnev YearsGorbachev YearsWilly Brandt is the first Social Democratic West German chancellorstrikes break out across PolandJimmy Carter's presidencyRonald Reagan's presidencyVelvet Revolutionrevolution in Romania
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