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The End of the Cold War
Created by
Olivia Doyle
⟶ Updated 8 Jan 2019 ⟶
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Early Russian History
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Events
Socialists in Italian gov't
GB Labour Party returns to power
Willy Brandt (first Social Democratic West German Chancellor)
Charles de Gaulle resigns as French President
Willy Brandt flies to Poland for treaty of reconciliation
Building of Berlin Wall
relaxation of east-west tensions / detente
joint US/ USSR space mission
Helsinki Accords
signing of Charter 77 in Czechoslovakia
first oil shock
Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, archbishop of Krakow elected Pope
Polish strikes
creation of Solidarity in Poland
Solidarity conflict with USSR
general/ head of Poland's communist government Wojcieh Jaruzelski proclaims martial law & arrests Solidarity leaders
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Widespread consumer dissatisfaction in USSR
nuclear accident at Cherynobyl
First free election in USSR in 70 years
USSR troops withdrawn from Afghanistan
Washington Summit between Reagan and Gorbachev
legalization of Solidarity and free elections in Poland
revolts in Poland
Tadeusz Mazowiecki (Solidarity newspaper editor) elected Prime Minister of Poland
Polish gov't abolishes price controls
Hungary's Communist Party boss Janos Kadar replaced by reform minded communist
Hungarian communist party agrees to free election
east germany opens Berlin Wall
Vaclav Havel elected President pf Czechoslovakia
Mass protests in Romania
West Germany's Helmut Kohl presents ten point plan for unification with east Germany
Alliance for Germany won 50% of votes in east German Parliamentary election
agreement between Gorbachev (USSR) and Kohl (germany)
east and west Germany unify
Paris Accord
President George H.W. Bush cancels around-the-clock alert status for American bombers
attemped kidnap of Gorbachev and failed coup
Pope john Paul II returns to Poland
Solidarity driven underground
Congress of People's Deputies formed
End of Soviet Union
Periods
The Brezhnev Years
The Gorbachev Years
President Jimmy Carter (US)
President Ronald Reagan
Yuri Andropov (USSR)
Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia
US President George H. W. Bush
radical, reform Communist Boris Yeltsin parliamentary leader of USSR