The End of the Cold War
1. 1975
-------- Boland Amendment passed U.S. and USSR sign Helsinki accords Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair; U.S. and Soviet Union sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Reagan administration sells arms to Iran for release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras; Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the Soviet Union Soviet Union dismantled Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in China; fall of the Berlin Wall U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran taken hostage; U.S. and USSR sign SALT II, but Congress does not ratify it
2. 1979
-------- Boland Amendment passed U.S. and USSR sign Helsinki accords Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair; U.S. and Soviet Union sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Reagan administration sells arms to Iran for release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras; Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the Soviet Union Soviet Union dismantled Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in China; fall of the Berlin Wall U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran taken hostage; U.S. and USSR sign SALT II, but Congress does not ratify it
3. 1982
-------- Boland Amendment passed U.S. and USSR sign Helsinki accords Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair; U.S. and Soviet Union sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Reagan administration sells arms to Iran for release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras; Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the Soviet Union Soviet Union dismantled Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in China; fall of the Berlin Wall U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran taken hostage; U.S. and USSR sign SALT II, but Congress does not ratify it
4. 1985
-------- Boland Amendment passed U.S. and USSR sign Helsinki accords Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair; U.S. and Soviet Union sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Reagan administration sells arms to Iran for release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras; Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the Soviet Union Soviet Union dismantled Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in China; fall of the Berlin Wall U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran taken hostage; U.S. and USSR sign SALT II, but Congress does not ratify it
5. 1987
-------- Boland Amendment passed U.S. and USSR sign Helsinki accords Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair; U.S. and Soviet Union sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Reagan administration sells arms to Iran for release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras; Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the Soviet Union Soviet Union dismantled Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in China; fall of the Berlin Wall U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran taken hostage; U.S. and USSR sign SALT II, but Congress does not ratify it
6. 1989
-------- Boland Amendment passed U.S. and USSR sign Helsinki accords Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair; U.S. and Soviet Union sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Reagan administration sells arms to Iran for release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras; Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the Soviet Union Soviet Union dismantled Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in China; fall of the Berlin Wall U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran taken hostage; U.S. and USSR sign SALT II, but Congress does not ratify it
7. 1990-1991
-------- Boland Amendment passed U.S. and USSR sign Helsinki accords Senate hearings on Iran-Contra affair; U.S. and Soviet Union sign Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty Reagan administration sells arms to Iran for release of hostages and to fund Nicaraguan Contras; Mikhail Gorbachev assumes leadership of the Soviet Union Soviet Union dismantled Tiananmen Square protests and crackdown in China; fall of the Berlin Wall U.S. Embassy staff in Tehran taken hostage; U.S. and USSR sign SALT II, but Congress does not ratify it