* 1985 – Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev declares a moratorium on the deployment of middle-range missiles in Europe.

Following the death of terminally ill Konstantin Chernenko, the Politburo elected Mikhail Gorbachev to the position of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) in March 1985, marking the rise of a new generation of leadership.

Only after the ascendancy of Mikhail Gorbachev to Soviet leadership in 1985 did mass media in Finland gradually begin to criticize the Soviet Union more.

On 11 March 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev was chosen by the Politburo as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

* 1985 – Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

In 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev rose to power in the Soviet Union and began policies of radical political reform involving political liberalization, called Perestroika and Glasnost.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, or Gorbachov ( more accurately reflecting the pronunciation of his name ) (; born 2 March 1931 ), is a former Soviet statesman, having served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991, and as the last head of state of the Soviet Union, having served from 1988 until its dissolution in 1991.

The elder Kim was unmoved by the social and ecomomic reforms of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev starting in 1985, and this contributed to the decline in relations with Moscow.

* 1985 – Cold War: In Geneva, U. S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time.

After Mikhail Gorbachev took the office of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in March 1985, he began a series of political reforms that were resisted by many established members of the Communist Party.

During the initial period ( 1985 – 87 ) of Mikhail Gorbachev's time in power, he talked about modifying central planning, but did not make any truly fundamental changes ( uskoreniye, acceleration ).

From 1985 onwards, the last Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who sought to enact liberal reforms in the Soviet system, introduced the policies of glasnost ( openness ) and perestroika ( restructuring ) in an attempt to end the period of economic stagnation in the country and democratise the government.

The Cold War began to wind down after Mikhail Gorbachev assumed power in March 1985.

In the late 1980s, the liberalized atmosphere of the Soviet Union under Mikhail S. Gorbachev ( in power 1985 – 91 ) fostered political opposition groups and open ( albeit limited ) opposition to Soviet policy in Uzbekistan.

** The Soviet Union begins its program of economic restructuring ( perestroika ) with legislation initiated by Premier Mikhail Gorbachev ( though Gorbachev had begun minor restructuring in 1985 ).

Eventually, the NATO missiles were set up and used as bargaining chips in arms talks with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who took office in 1985.

Lou Cannon and Colin Powell believed the film inspired Ronald Reagan to discuss uniting against an alien invasion when meeting Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.

The arrival of Mikhail Gorbachev on the scene in 1985 and his ' new thinking ' on foreign and domestic policy was probably the most important factor in the Soviets ' decision to leave.

The year is 1985, and Mikhail Gorbachev has come to power in the Soviet Union.

Nonetheless, since the mid-1950s, despite the Communist Party of the Soviet Union ( CPSU ) having disowned Stalinism, the political culture of Stalinism — an omnipotent General Secretary, anti-Trotskyism, a five-year planned economy ( post-New Economic Policy ), and repudiation of the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact secret protocols — remained the character of Soviet society until the accession of Mikhail Gorbachev as leader of the CPSU in 1985.

Mikhail Gorbachev introduced " glasnost " ( openness ) and " perestroika " ( restructuring ) in 1985, hoping to stimulate the failing Soviet economy and encourage productivity, particularly in the areas of consumer goods, the liberalisation of co-operative businesses and the service economy.

In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev visited Bulgaria and reportedly pressured Zhivkov to make the country more competitive economically.

In spite of a series of environmental laws and regulations passed in the 1970s, authentic environmental protection in the Soviet Union did not become a major concern until General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in March 1985.

* The Geneva Summit of 1985, where Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan held discussions on international relations and the arms race

Chernenko died on 10 March 1985, and the Central Committee appointed Gorbachev General Secretary on 11 March.

When Chernenko died in March 1985, Gorbachev assumed power unopposed.

On 2 November 1985 Gorbachev replaced Turdakun Usubaliyev the First Secretary of the Communist Party of Kirghizia, who had been in power for 24 years, with Absamat Masaliyev.

" Soviet Policy: From Chernenko to Gorbachev ," Aussenpolitik, 36, No. 4, April 1985, 357 – 75.

Within three years of the deaths of Soviet Leaders Leonid Brezhnev, Yuri Andropov, and Konstantin Chernenko, Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo in 1985.

Gorbachev was elected General Secretary by the Politburo on 11 March 1985, only three hours after Chernenko's death.

Beginning in 1985, Nancy strongly encouraged her husband to hold " summit " conferences with Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev, and suggested they form a personal relationship beforehand.

In May 1985, Gorbachev gave a speech in Leningrad which he admitted the slowing down of the economic development and inadequate living standards.

Lilith Sternin starts as a one-time character in the Season 4 episode, " Second Time Around " ( 1985 ), but then she becomes a recurring character since Season 5 ( 1986 – 87 ), although she is a permanent character for Seasons 10 and 11 ( 1991 – 93 ).

* 1985 – Artificial heart recipient William J. Schroeder becomes the first such patient to leave hospital.

* 1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17

* 1985 – Vice President George Bush becomes the Acting President for the day when President Ronald Reagan undergoes surgery to remove polyps from his colon.

* 1985 – Sandinista Daniel Ortega becomes president of Nicaragua and vows to continue the transformation to socialism and alliance with the Soviet Union and Cuba ; American policy continues to support the Contras in their revolt against the Nicaraguan government.

" In 1985, David Jasper praised the poem as " one of his greatest meditations on the nature of poetry and poetic creation " and argued " it is through irony, also, as it unsettles and undercuts, that the fragment becomes a Romantic literary form of such importance, nowhere more so than in ' Kubla Khan '.

* 1985 – Garry Kasparov, 22, of the Soviet Union becomes the youngest World Chess Champion by beating Anatoly Karpov, also of the Soviet Union.

The 1985 comedy The Man with One Red Shoe features an eccentric man wearing one normal business shoe and one red shoe that becomes central to the plot.

* 1985 — Don Bennett becomes the city's first full-time fire chief.

Several months after the last issue of The New Adventures of Superboy, a four-issue miniseries was published called Superman: The Secret Years ( 1985 ), which tells the story of how Superboy becomes Superman during his junior year of college.

Esther Marjorie Hill ( 1895 – 1985 ) becomes the first female architect in Canada when she graduates from the University of Toronto.

* 1992: Ronald R. Powell, who ran Roy Rogers from 1985 to 1987 under Mariott, becomes President of Roy Rogers and is believed to have influenced Hardee's decision in dropping its conversion strategy and restoring the chain to its original identity.

* 1985: Seasoned restaurant entrepreneur Donald N. Smith, who served on the Board of Directors of Holiday Inns, purchases ownership interest in Perkins and becomes Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Company.

Her performance as a young man in the stage play Yueqin and Little Tiger drew the attention of movie director Teng Wenji ( 滕文骥 ), which gained her her first movie role in On The Beach ( 1985 ), as a village girl who becomes a factory worker and struggled against her father's will for her to marry her cousin.

* 1985: March: ABS braking becomes optional to the CX 25 GTi Turbo.

* 1985: The Minolta Maxxum 7000 Alpha Mount Camera becomes the world's first autofocus 35mm SLR with in-camera autofocus motor.

In the fourth season, Mary Beth becomes pregnant ; she and Harvey welcome in a baby daughter, Alice, in the fall of 1985.

* Colleen Camp as a French maid in Clue ( 1985 ), a murder mystery spoof in which she becomes a suspect, and later, a victim

11 June 1985 – St Pierre and Miquelon becomes a territorial collectivity with special status, the local authorities having responsibility for taxation, customs arrangements, town planning and shipping registration.

In the scene after Doc and Marty take Clara to her house, during which it becomes apparent that the two are strongly attracted, Doc realizes that the ravine is called ' Clayton Ravine ' in 1985, presumably because Clara originally fell into it and was killed.

Kevin becomes good friends with Terry Duckworth ( Nigel Pivaro ), who sets him up on a blind date with Michelle Robinson in May 1985.

Den and Angie start 1985 by celebrating their seventeenth wedding anniversary, but it soon becomes clear that their marriage is a sham.

* 1985 – Aldo Ceccato becomes principal conductor