timeline of the fall of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War.
Time
1985
November
1985
Event
Mikhail
Gorbachev is
made the Soviet
premier
The Geneva
Summit
What happened
The Politburo selected
Gorbachev, who was a
member, to be the
premier in 1985.
Reagan and
Gorbachev met to
discuss reducing their
numbers of nuclear
weapons.
Why it was important or how it led to the
fall of the Soviet Union
