The End of the Cold War
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Updated: 9 Jan 2020
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Created byEllie Han
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Socialists enter Italian governmentLabour Party returns to power in BritainWest German chancellor Konrad Adenauer retiresCharles de Gaulle resignsBrandt flies to Poland to sign treaty of reconciliation and asks for forgiveness for mass murder of JewsBerlin Wall builtUS Civil Rights ActSoviet invasion of Czechoslovakia"May Events" protests in FranceGreenpeace founded in CanadaOPEC oil embargoHelsinki AccordsUS and Soviet Union sign arms reduction treatydissolution of the Soviet Unionstrikes break out in PolandPolish working class rises in protestPerestroikaChernobyl nuclear plant accidentFirst free elections since 1917 allow for a minority of critical independents to be elected to a revitalized Congress of People's DeputiesSolidarity legalizedCharter 77 reform movement founded in CzechoslovakiaPolish Solidarity movement foundedNoncommunist PM elected in PolandBerlin Wall openedCommunist party defeated in Soviet electionsFree elections in hungaryGerman ReunificationParis Accord: arms reductions across EuropeWest German chancellor Helmut Kohl presents a ten-point plan for step-by-step unificationBoris Yeltsin elected parliamentary leader of the Russian Soviet RepublicPeriods
Brezhnev YearsGorbachev YearsWilly Brandt becomes first Social Democratic West German chancellorSecond Vatican Councilpeak of US involvement in Vietnam WarSoviet-Afghan Warfall of communism in eastern europeJimmy Carter presidencyVelvet Revolution
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