End of the Cold War: Revolutions in Europe
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- Created on: 07-10-17 14:28
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- End of the Cold War: Revolutions in Europe
- May 1989- Hungarian Gov. takes down fence along border with non-communist
- May 1989- Austria promises new democratic government and free elections in Octber
- November 1989- ' The Velvet Revolution'
- Czech communist government is overthrown
- Anti-communist is elected president
- June 1989- Solidarity legalised in Poland & they win landslide victory in election
- Septmeber 1989- Huge numbers of East Germans leave for West on the 11th.
- 125,000 East Germans corss the border
- October 1989- Gorbachev refuses to help East German government put down revolutions
- Novmeber 1989- East German Gov. announces border crossing West Berlin opened.
- 1000s of people start pulling it down.
- East and West are formally reuinted in 1990
- Decemeber 1989- In Romania a week of protests and riots took place, that overthrew the government of Nicolae Ceausescu.
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