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The end of the Cold War.

1989

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The leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, and President George H. W. Bush declare the end of the Cold War, which has been a war of political tensions between the Soviet Union and the U.S. that has held both countries captive with a nuclear arsenal pointed at each other for years.

The announcement is made at the Malta Summit in December 1989.