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Shortly after Joseph Stalin's death on March 5th, 1953, Nikita Krushchev came to power in the Soviet Union. Krushchev publicly condemned the harm and death that Stalin caused his citizens, and began "de-stalinizing" the country by destroying remnants left over from Stalin's time in power.

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In 1968, Czech leader Alexander Dubček brought reforms to his country and loosened censorship. However, on August 20, 1968, Czechoslovakia was invaded by armed forces from the Warsaw Pact nations. Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev said that the USSR had the right to stop its satellite nations from refusing communism.

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"Détente" is a French word that means "a loosening". By the 1970s, the United States and the Soviet Union finally eased the tensions between them.

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In 1972, US president Nixon and Soviet leader Brezhnev both signed the SALT I Treaty after multiple "Strategic Arms Limitation Talks" (SALT). This treaty was a five-year agreement that limited the number of intercontinental ballistic and submarine-launched missiles allowed in each country.

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Mikhail Gorbachev became the leader of the Soviet Union in 1985. His goal was to reform the USSR. He did so through his policy of "glasnost", which encouraged citizens to openly discuss issues in society.

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The Berlin wall fell in October of 1989. The falling of the Berlin Wall reunified Germany and signaled the end of the Cold War.