| 4.1.1980 |
USA stop wheat sales to the USSR
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| .7.1980 |
International boykot of the Moscow Olypic Games
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| 22.9.1980 |
Start of the Iran-Iraqi war
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| 4.11.1980 |
Reagan elected for president
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| 13.12.1981 |
Martial law declared in Poland
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| 29.12.1981 |
USA lays economic sanctions on USSR and Poland
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| 16.3.1982 |
Brezhnev freezes the deployment of the SS-20 rockets west of Ural
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| 10.11.1982 |
Brezhnev dies and is replaced by Andropov
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| .3.1983 |
Reagan declares the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
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| 21.7.1983 |
Martial law canceled in Poland
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| 17.1.1984 |
NATO and Warshaw Pact arms limitation talks start
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| 9.2.1984 |
Andropov dies and is replaced by Chernenko
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| .8.1984 |
Most of East Europe countries boykot Los Angeles Olympic Games
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| 4.2.1985 |
Reagan requests three times military budget rise to support SDI
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| 10.3.1985 |
Chernenko dies
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| 11.3.1985 |
Gorbachev named Chairman of Central Commitee of the CPSU
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| 7.4.1985 |
Gorbachev declares definitive stop of missile deployment in Europe
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| 2.7.1985 |
Schevarnadze replaces Gromyko as Minister of Foreign Affairs
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| 21.11.1985 |
First meeting of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneve
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| 11.10.1986 - 12.10.1986 |
Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Reykavik
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| 25.6.1987 |
Gorbachev outlines several reforms to Soviet economy
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| 8.10.1987 - 10.12.1987 |
Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Washington, middle-range missles ban treaty signed
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| ..1988 |
Iran-Iraqi war ends
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| 16.7.1988 |
Warsaw pact demands a three-step decrease of conventional weapon units in Europe
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| 8.11.1988 |
Bush wins election
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| 10.1.1989 |
Cuban troops start to leave Angola
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| 15.2.1989 |
Full retreat of Soviet forces from Afghanistan
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| 4.6.1989 |
Solidarita wins elections in Poland
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| 10.9.1989 |
Hungary allows East Germans to enter Austria through their border
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| 2.10.1989 |
Start of pro-democratic changes in East Germany
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| 7.10.1989 |
Hungarian socialistic labour party proclaimes self-dismissal
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| 9.11.1989 |
East Germany opens West German border
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| 2.12.1989 - 3.12.1989 |
Bush and Gorbachev meet off the Maltanian coast
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| 10.12.1989 |
Non-communistic goverment seize power in Czechoslovakia
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| 22.12.1989 |
Ceausesco's goverment overthrown in Rumunia
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