End of Cold War Essay Dates

1945 Feb 4th - 11th

Yalta, Henry Morgenthau (1944)

1945 Jul 17th - Aug 2nd

Potsdam

1961 Aug

Berlin Wall construction starts

1967

Law of State Citizenship

1968

Brezhnev Doctrine

1981 Jan 20th

Ronald Reagan elected

1981 Dec 13th

Polish Solidarity outlawed, leaders arrested, Martial Law

1985 Mar 11th

Mikhail Gorbachev elected

1986

Perestroika (restructuring - economics) & Glasnost (openness - political transparency & criticism)

1987 Jun

“Tear Down this Wall” Reagan speech

1988 Dec 7th

Gorbachev ends Brezhnev Doctrine, non-intervention policies

1989 Jan 20th

Reagan ends, George H.W. Bush

1989 Jan

Poland independence by election

1989 Apr 15th

Tiananmen Square (200 killed), East Ger congrats

1989 Sep

Solidarity take governance - Lech Walesa Dec 22nd 1991

1989 Oct

Hungary independence peacefully

1989 Nov 4th

½ million people protest in East Berlin

1989 Nov 9th

Gunter Schabowski opens wall, 9pm people, 11pm gates, 11:30pm open

1989 Nov

Czechoslovakia independence

1989 Nov 28th

Helmut Kohl (West) 10-Point-Plan reunification

1989 Dec

Nicolae Ceausescu overthrown Romania

1990 Sep

Two Plus Four Talks, Soviet approval

1990 Oct 3rd

Unification Treaty

1990 Dec 2nd

First all-German election

1991 Jun 25th

Croatia & Slovakia independence

1991 Aug 19th

Gorbachev arrested in failed August Coup

1991 Sep

USSR recognizes Baltic States independence

1991 Dec

USSR dissolves into 15 states

1991 Dec 25th

Gorbachev resigns

1993 Jan 1st

Czechoslovakia splits