Gorbachev timeline Flashcards
Geneva Summit
1985
Introduction of Perestroika
April 1985
Introduction of Glasnost
May 1985
Chernobyl nuclear disaster
1986
Reykjavik Summit
1986
Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces treaty signed
December 8 1987
Cooperatives legalised
1988
Independence movement in Poland
1988
Independence movement in Hungary
1988
Independence movement in Estonia
1988
Afghanistan withdrawal begins
1988
Fall of the Berlin Wall
9 November 1989
Independence movement in East Germany
1989
Independence movement in Czechoslovakia
1989
Independence movement in Romania
1989
Independence movement in Lithuania
1989
Independence movement in Latvia
1989
Fall of communism in Yugoslavia
1990
Fall of communism in Mongolia
1990
Fall of communism in Albania
1991
Fall of communism in Cambodia
1993
First free elections held
1989
Soviet party drops monopoly on power
1990
August Coup
19-21 August 1991