Cold war 3

• Detente in 1970s
• SALT 1 began in 1969 and completed 1972
• Helsinki agreements 1975
• SALT 2 began 1974 and the treaty was signed 1979
• Invasion of Afghanistan in 1979
• Carter doctrine protected Persian golf and American interests
• Senate ratified SALT 2 in response to the invasion of Afghanistan
• Moscow Olympic games boycott in 1980
• Strategic defence initiative (SDI) also known as "star wars"
• In 1988 Gorbachev rejected the Brezhnev doctrine
• In 1989 Gorbachev acceptes members of the Warsaw pact could make their own changes to their countries without soviet interference
• In 1991 Germany reunified as a country
• 9 November 1989 was the fall off the Berlin wall
• Gorbachev resigned in 1991
• Hungary and Austria boarder removed in 1989 breaking the iron curtain
• In 1989 Bush declared an end to the cold war
• In 1991 was the fall of the Soviet Union