Collapse of USSR

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    Will Mawdsley Year 10

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    • May 1989-Hungrians began dismantling the barbed-wire fence between Hungary and Austria
    • June 1989- Poland held first free elections for first time since world war 2 and Lech Walesa(solidarity) gets elected as first non-communist president in eastern europe
    • September 1989- thousands of east Germans on holiday in Hungary and Czechoslovakia refuse to go home and escape through Austria to west germany
    • October 1989- Honecker order east German troops to fire upon demonstrators but they refuse. Gorbachev makes it clear soviet tanks will not help
    • November 1989- East Germans march in thousands to checkpoints at berlin wall. Guards throw down weapons and join the crowds, berlin wall is dismantled
    • November 1989- After huge demonstrations in Czechoslovakia the Czech government opens border to the west and allows formation of other parties
    • December 1989- Romania has a short, bloody revolution that ended with execution of communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu and his wife
    • December 1989- Communist party in Hungary renames itself to Socialist party and declares free election to be held in 1990
    • December 1989- Bulgaria has huge demonstrations against communist government
    • March 1990- Latvia declares independence from USSR
    • October 3 1990 - Germany is united as a whole country again
    • March 1990- Gorbachev sent troops to Lithuania and Azerbaijan to end rioting after they demand independence
    • May 1990- Russian Republic, largest state of USSR, elected Boris Yeltsin as president. Yeltsin said he saw no future in USSR and that republics of USSR should become independent
    • July 1990- Ukraine declares independence. Other republics follow suit.
      Gorbachev receives Nobel peace prize for contribution to ending of cold war
    • April 1991- Republic of Georgia declare independence from Soviet Union
    • August 1991- Hardline communist attempt coup against Gorbachev to attempt and save USSR but fail
    • December 1991- 25th of December, Gorbachev announces resignment from position and along with it the official downfall of the USSR
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