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In this year, the U.S. made giving money to the Contras illegal.
What is 1983?
In 1987, the Soviet Union and the U.S. agreed to start dismantling these.
What are short and medium-range nuclear missiles?
What is the Iran-Contra affair?
In this country, 200,000 students protested Communism.
What is China?
This man became the Soviet Premier in 1985.
Who is Mikhail Gorbachev?
What is 1986?
China's economy was being turned into this over the 1980s.
What is a capitalist economy?
This man led the Solidarity movement in Poland.
Who is Lech Walesa?
This man was the president of the U.S. during most of the 1980s.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
In this year, the Czech republic gained its first non-Communist president in over 40 years.
What is 1989?
The Soviet Union allowed the U.S. to aid them for the first time since WW2 after an earthquake in this country.
What is Armenia?
In this country, 52 Americans were held as hostages.
What is Iran?
Czechoslovakia's first non-Communist president in 40 years was famous for this.
What is being a literary figure? (Literature.)
This person, famous for his art depicting cans and celebrities, died in 1987.
In this year, the Falklands War began with the invasion of the Falklands Islands by Argentina.
What is 1982?
This is the Russian name for Gorbachev's policy of openness.
What is glasnost?
These two countries invaded Lebanon.
What are Israel and Syria?
This man was the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party, and his death sparked the student protests in China.
Who is Hu Yaobang?
On this day, Solidarity was born in Poland.
What is September 22, 1980?
This continues to stop China from having close relationships with Western countries.
What is human rights violations?
This man was Sadat's successor as the Egyptian president.
Who is Hosni Mubarak?
The Afghani people who fought against the Soviet Union were called this.
What is the mujaheddin?
This man led Iraq during their invasion of Iran.