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The Final Years of the Cold War 1981-91 Flashcards

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INF Talks/ Reagan proposes ‘zero option’

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1981

Talks about intermediate range nuclear missiles
Zero-option= Complete destruction of INF weapons

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Brezhnev Dies

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1982

Andropov successor

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Reagan calls the Soviet Union an ‘Evil Empire’

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March 1983

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SDI

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March 1983

Strategic defence initiative- First strike capability without the risk of MAD

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Korean plane KAL 007 shot down by Soviets

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September 1983

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Deployment of Cruise and Pershing missiles in Europe and Soviets walk out of INF talks

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November 1983

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Andropov Dies

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1984

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Chernernko dies

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1985

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Gorbachev Leader of Soviet Union / INF and START talks resume

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March 1985

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Geneva Summit

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November 1985

Reagan and Gorbachev (First summit since 1979)
-Disagree over SDI but get on well

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Reykjavik Summit

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1986

Reagan and Gorbachev
-Disagree over SDI but agree on nuclear arms abolition

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Washington Summit

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1987

Reagan and Gorbachev
-INF treaty signed to dismantle SS-20 and Pershing+ Cruise missiles

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Moscow Summit

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1988

Reagan and Gorbachev

  • Reagan ‘The era of evil empire is a different era’
  • Gorbachev promises to remove troops from Afghanistan
  • START talks begin
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Gorbachev’s speech to the UN

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1988

Promises to remove 500,000 Red Army troops from Eastern Europe

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George Bush elected as President

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1988

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Malta Summit

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1989

Bush and Gorbachev

  • ‘Burried the cold war in the Mediterranean sea’
  • Reduce conventional forces in Europe
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End of communist rule in Poland and Czechoslovakia. Lea Walesa and Havel become President

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1989-90

Walesa- Poland (Solidarity)
Havel- Czechoslovakia (Charter 77)

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Fall of the Berlin Wall

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November 1989

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Hungary first elections

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March 1990

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Reunification of East and West Germany

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October 1990

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Official collapse of the Soviet Union/ resignation of Gorbachev

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December 1991

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