| 4.2.1945 - 11.2.1945 |
Roosvelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta. All agreed that Germany wound not be divided after the war, but remained in occupation zones (which included France) until it could be unified. Stalin promised to hold free elections in Poland and help out with Japan.
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| 12.4.1945 |
F.D.Roosvelt dies in Warm Springs, Georgia. Harry S.Truman becomes president of USA
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| 8.5.1945 |
End of World War II in Europe
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| 17.6.1945 - 2.8.1945 |
USSR (Stalin, Molotov), USA (Truman, J.Byrnes) UK (Churchill/Atlee, A.Eden) meet in Potsdam.
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| 26.6.1945 |
Signing of the founding UN Charter in San Francisco by 51 states.
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| 6.8.1945 - 9.8.1945 |
A-bomb drops on Japan cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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| 14.9.1945 |
Capitulation of Japan
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| 6.12.1945 |
US and UK agree at a lend of 3.75 billion $ for the recovery of British economy.
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| 5.3.1946 |
W.Churchill's speech about the "Iron Curtain" in Fulton
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| 10.2.1947 |
Paris peace talks (with Hitler's allies Italy, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Finland)
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| 4.3.1947 |
France and UK sign a treaty about common ways in dealing with international and security policy.
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| 12.3.1947 |
Announcement of Truman's Doctrine (supporting democracy) - leading to financial support for legitim governments in Turkey and Greece
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| 22.3.1947 |
President Harry S. Truman issues the Truman Lovalty Order, which made it possible to run checks on state employees for their loyality to the Constitution and possible collaboration on sabotage acts
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| 5.6.1947 |
Start of the supportive Marshall's plan. (state secretary gen. George C.Marshall, in Harvard)
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| .7.1947 |
July issue of "Foreign Affairs" prints an article by G.Kennan about "containment of russian expansive tendencies"
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| 26.7.1947 |
National Security Act The National Security Act ordered the self-governing parts of the armed forces under the new department of defense. James V.Forrestal becomes first secretary of defense. National Security Board founded, which included the CIA.
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| 5.10.1947 |
Founding of Informbyro - international organization of communist parties
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| 29.11.1947 |
UN Great Assembly acknowledges the division of Palestine to arabic and jewish state. On the same day riots between Arabs and Jews broke out on the british mandate territory.
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| 14.5.1948 |
After last British units left Palestine, Isreal was declared. However, its borders remained undefined.
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| 2.11.1948 |
Truman re-elected president
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| 18.1.1949 |
Foundment of the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)
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| 4.4.1949 |
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) entered by 11 states.
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| 12.5.1949 |
USSR ends the blockade of West Berlin
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| 23.5.1949 |
Forming of West Germany
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| 23.9.1949 |
First Soviet atom bomb test.
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| 7.10.1949 |
Forming of East Germany
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| 25.6.1950 |
North Korean troops invade South Korea. Start of the Korea War.
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| 3.10.1952 |
First UK atom bomb test
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| 1.11.1952 |
First US hydrogene bomb test. Eniwetok atoll, South Pacific.
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| 4.11.1952 |
D.Eisenhower defeats A.Stevenson in presidental elections in the US
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| 5.3.1953 |
Stalin dies
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| 17.6.1953 |
Labour workers stand-up in East Berlin
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| 27.6.1953 |
End of the Korean War
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| 12.9.1953 |
Khrushchev becomes the Chairman of the Communistic Party
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| 9.5.1955 |
West Germany enters NATO
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| 14.5.1955 |
Forming of the Warshaw Pact
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| 14.2.1956 |
The 20th summit of the CPSU. Later, February 25, Khrushchev's allegations of Stalin's reign
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| 17.4.1956 |
Informbyro dismissed
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| 4.10.1956 |
Soviet army enters Budapest
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| 6.10.1956 |
Eisenhower re-elected president
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| 23.10.1956 |
Hungarian stand-up starts
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| 31.10.1956 - 7.11.1956 |
British-French offense in Suez
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| 15.2.1957 |
Gromyko named Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR
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| 4.10.1957 |
USSR announced the release of Sputnik 1
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| 16.2.1959 |
Castro becames prime minister of Cuba
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| 15.9.1959 |
Krushchev starts his visit to the USA
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| 13.2.1960 |
French atom bomb test
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| 1.5.1960 |
U-2 plane shotdown over the USSR
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| 16.5.1960 |
Four super powers meeting in Paris
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| .8.1960 |
Soviet technicians called off China
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| 8.11.1960 |
Kennedy wins presidential election
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| 12.4.1961 |
The flight of Yuriy Gagarin
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| 13.4.1961 |
Sealing of the East German border in Berlin
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| 17.4.1961 |
Building of the Berlin Wall
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| 22.10.1962 - 27.10.1962 |
Cuban rocket crisis
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| 20.6.1963 |
USA and USSR established a "hotline" connection
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| 26.6.1963 |
Kennedy visits Berlin
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| 25.7.1963 |
USA and USSR sign nuclear testing ban treaty
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| 22.11.1963 |
Kennedy killed, Johnson takes over presidency
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| 15.10.1964 |
Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as chairman of CPSU
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| 16.10.1964 |
Chinese atomic bomb test
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| 3.11.1964 |
Johnson wins presidential election
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| .2.1965 - .3.1965 |
Conflict between USA and Viet-kong flames up
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| 1.6.1966 |
France quits NATO command
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| 27.1.1967 |
USA, USSR and UK sign aerial nuclear test ban treaty
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| 5.6.1967 - 10.6.1967 |
6-days war in Near East
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| 30.1.1968 |
Viet-Kong starts Tat offensive
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| 1.7.1968 |
USA, USSR and UK sign anti nuclear arms proliferation treaty
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| 20.8.1968 - 21.8.1968 |
Warshaw pact armies enter CSSR
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| 5.11.1968 |
Nixon elected president of the USA
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| ..1969 |
First secret meeting of H.Kissinger and Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam
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| 6.1.1969 |
French weapons sales to Israel banned
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| 18.1.1969 |
Four-party conference about Vietnam in Paris
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| 20.1.1969 |
Nixon enters White House
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| 21.1.1969 |
Soviet-Jordan treaty about technichal and economical cooperation
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| 28.1.1969 |
Gromyko accuses USA of violating Laos' inner affairs
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| 22.2.1969 |
Nationalist offensive in South Vietnam
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| 24.2.1969 |
Nixon starts his journey across Western Europe
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| 26.2.1969 |
USSR proposes a new definition of armed agrassion in the UN
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| 2.3.1969 |
Soviet-Chinese conflict (Chinese assault on the Ussuri river)
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| 17.3.1969 |
Member states of the Warshaw pact proposed a conference about European security
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| 18.3.1969 |
Heavy US bombardment in Cambodia
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| 25.3.1969 |
Pakistani president M.Ajub Khan resignes after civil desorders. The goverment was appointed by Jahra Khan.
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| 1.4.1969 |
Lin Piao succeses Mao Ce-tung
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| 11.4.1969 |
The Soviets re-established conference with China from 1964
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| 27.4.1969 |
Referendum held in France, de Gaulle steps down
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| 26.5.1969 |
Soviet-French agreement about economical and trade cooperation for years 1970-74
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| 3.6.1969 |
Soviet-British long-term business agreement for years 1969-75
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| 5.6.1969 - 17.6.1969 |
International meeting of 75 communistic and workmen's parties in Moscow
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| 13.6.1969 |
Soviet goverment accepted the temporary goverment of South-Vietnam
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| 15.6.1969 |
G.Pompidou elected new French president
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| 1.9.1969 |
Goverment overthrown in Lybia, lead taken by colonel Qaddafi
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| 3.9.1969 |
North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Min dies
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| 11.9.1969 |
USSR ministers' chairman A.Kosygin in Benjing
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| 19.9.1969 |
USSR proposes a meeting about strengthening international security at the UN General Assembly
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| 15.10.1969 |
Moratorium in the US - demonstration against Vietnam War
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| 20.10.1969 |
China and USSR start negotiations in Benjing
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| 21.10.1969 |
W. Brandt becomes West German chancelor
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| 30.10.1969 - 31.10.1969 |
Conference between ministeros of foreign affairs about preparations of the European conference in Paris
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| 3.11.1969 |
Nixon declared vietnamisation plan
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| 15.11.1969 |
Biggest anti-Vietnam demonstration in the USA
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| 17.11.1969 |
First round of the SALT negotiations between USA and USSR in Helsinki
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| 24.11.1969 |
SALT ratified by both parties
|
| ..1970 |
Four Ohio University students killed by a demonstration against the intervention in Cambodia
|
| ..1970 |
Soviet goverment opposes Portugese agression in Guinea
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| 3.3.1970 - 21.3.1970 |
Negotiations between West Germany and USSR about the act of no use of military power. (first round was held on 30.1-18.2)
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| 5.3.1970 |
The Nuclear Arms Proliferation Treaty became valid. Ratification documents held in Moscow, Washington and London.
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| 17.3.1970 |
Lon Nol's overthrow in Cambodia. Sinahuk creates an exile goverment in Benjing.
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| 19.3.1970 |
Prime minister of East Germany, W.Stroph meets bundeskanzler W.Brandt in Erfurt
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| 30.4.1970 |
US and Saigon troops intervention in Cambodia
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| 4.5.1970 |
Soviet declaration of US intervention in Cambodia
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| 5.5.1970 |
Senate of the USA stopped every financial support to US troops in Cambodia as of 30.6.1970
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| 6.5.1970 |
USSR and CSSR sign bilateral support treaty
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| 27.5.1970 |
East German prime minister W.Stoph visits West German Kassel.
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| 11.6.1970 |
USSR agrees to continue support Vietnam
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| 18.6.1970 |
E.Heath becomes prime minister - British conservatives back in power
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| 12.8.1970 |
W.Brandt signed treaty about cooperation between Moscow and West Germany
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| 1.9.1970 - 8.9.1970 |
Jordianian war
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| 28.9.1970 |
Egyptian president Gamál Abd an-Násír dies. Anvar Sadat named new president
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| 27.10.1970 |
Soviet protest against US and Turkey violations of Soviet airspace.
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| 28.10.1970 |
People's (communistic) party wins Chilean election
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| 3.11.1970 |
Salvador Allende elected president in Chile
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| 9.11.1970 |
General Charles de Gaulle dies
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| .12.1970 |
Elections in Pakistan - won by Awami League, demanding autonomy for East Pakistan
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| 7.12.1970 |
W.Brandt signs cooperation treaty between Poland and West Germany
|
| 10.4.1971 |
US ping-pong team arrives in China
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| 25.10.1971 |
China entered UNO, Taiwan expelled
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| 21.2.1972 |
Nixon starts his visit to China
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| 10.4.1972 |
USA and USSR sign biological weapons ban treaty
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| 22.5.1972 |
Nixon starts his visit to Moscow
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| 26.5.1972 |
USA and USSR sign SALT 1
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| 7.11.1972 |
Nixon re-elected for president
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| 21.12.1972 |
West and East Germany sign Basic mutual relations treaty
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| 27.1.1973 |
Vietnamese peace treaty signed in Paris becomes valid.
|
| .3.1973 |
US army troops withdraw Vietnam
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| .10.1973 |
Arabian-israeli october war
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| 23.12.1973 |
Oil producers in Persian Gulf double the oil price
|
| 8.9.1974 |
Nixon resigns, he is replaced by Ford
|
| 24.11.1974 |
Ford a Brezhnev agree about the layout of the strategic arms control treaty (SALT 2)
|
| 1..1975 |
Helsinki declaration signed
|
| 30.4.1975 |
End of the Vietnamese war
|
| 17.7.1975 |
Common Soyuz-Apollo flight
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| .11.1975 |
Angolan civil war
|
| 2.11.1976 |
Carter wins election
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| 1.1.1977 |
USA and China begin to establish diplomatic bonds.
|
| 18.6.1977 |
Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT 2
|
| .10.1977 |
USSR starts SS-20 rocket deployment
|
| 25.12.1977 |
Soviet troops enter Afghanistan
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| 4.1.1980 |
USA stop wheat sales to the USSR
|
| .7.1980 |
International boykot of the Moscow Olypic Games
|
| 22.9.1980 |
Start of the Iran-Iraqi war
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| 4.11.1980 |
Reagan elected for president
|
| 13.12.1981 |
Martial law declared in Poland
|
| 29.12.1981 |
USA lays economic sanctions on USSR and Poland
|
| 16.3.1982 |
Brezhnev freezes the deployment of the SS-20 rockets west of Ural
|
| 10.11.1982 |
Brezhnev dies and is replaced by Andropov
|
| .3.1983 |
Reagan declares the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)
|
| 21.7.1983 |
Martial law canceled in Poland
|
| 17.1.1984 |
NATO and Warshaw Pact arms limitation talks start
|
| 9.2.1984 |
Andropov dies and is replaced by Chernenko
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| .8.1984 |
Most of East Europe countries boykot Los Angeles Olympic Games
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| 4.2.1985 |
Reagan requests three times military budget rise to support SDI
|
| 10.3.1985 |
Chernenko dies
|
| 11.3.1985 |
Gorbachev named Chairman of Central Commitee of the CPSU
|
| 7.4.1985 |
Gorbachev declares definitive stop of missile deployment in Europe
|
| 2.7.1985 |
Schevarnadze replaces Gromyko as Minister of Foreign Affairs
|
| 21.11.1985 |
First meeting of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneve
|
| 11.10.1986 - 12.10.1986 |
Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Reykavik
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| 25.6.1987 |
Gorbachev outlines several reforms to Soviet economy
|
| 8.10.1987 - 10.12.1987 |
Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Washington, middle-range missles ban treaty signed
|
| ..1988 |
Iran-Iraqi war ends
|
| 16.7.1988 |
Warsaw pact demands a three-step decrease of conventional weapon units in Europe
|
| 8.11.1988 |
Bush wins election
|
| 10.1.1989 |
Cuban troops start to leave Angola
|
| 15.2.1989 |
Full retreat of Soviet forces from Afghanistan
|
| 4.6.1989 |
Solidarita wins elections in Poland
|
| 10.9.1989 |
Hungary allows East Germans to enter Austria through their border
|
| 2.10.1989 |
Start of pro-democratic changes in East Germany
|
| 7.10.1989 |
Hungarian socialistic labour party proclaimes self-dismissal
|
| 9.11.1989 |
East Germany opens West German border
|
| 2.12.1989 - 3.12.1989 |
Bush and Gorbachev meet off the Maltanian coast
|
| 10.12.1989 |
Non-communistic goverment seize power in Czechoslovakia
|
| 22.12.1989 |
Ceausesco's goverment overthrown in Rumunia
|
| 11.2.1990 |
Mandela released from prison
|
| 18.3.1990 |
Free elections in East Germany
|
| 21.3.1990 |
Namibia becomes independent
|
| .9.1990 |
Iraq invades Kuwait
|
| 3.10.1990 |
Re-union of Germany
|
| 19.11.1990 - 21.11.1990 |
Force limitation treaty signed by Warshaw pact and NATO in Paris on a OECD meeting
|
| ..1991 |
Hard-line communists try to overthrow the goverment in USSR
|
| ..1991 |
Soviet President stops activity of CPSU
|
| 16.1.1991 - 8.2.1991 |
Persian gulf war
|
| .6.1991 |
Slovenian and Croatian war starts
|
| 29.6.1991 |
CMEA dismissed
|
| 1.7.1991 |
Warshaw pact dismissed
|
| 31.7.1991 |
Bush and Gorbachev sign START 1
|
| 8.12.1991 |
USSR dismissed, Commonwealth of Independent States created
|
| 25.12.1991 |
Gorbachev resigns his post of President of Soviet Union, formal dismissal of USSR
|
| .4.1992 |
Bosnian war starts
|
| 25.4.1992 |
Communistic goverment collapses in Afghanistan
|
| 3.11.1992 |
Clinton wins election
|
| 1.1.1993 |
Slovak and Czech Republics founded
|
| 3.1.1993 |
Bush and Yetsin sign START 2
|
| 4.10.1993 |
End of Moscow upstand
|
| 1.11.1993 |
European Union founded (Maastricht agreement)
|
| 12.12.1993 |
First multi-party elections in Russia
|
| 11.1.1994 |
NATO presents the "Partnership for peace" program
|
| 15.4.1994 |
Uruguyan round of GATT talks accepted
|
| 9.5.1994 |
Mandela elected president of Republic of South Africa
|
| .6.1994 |
Russia signs Partnership for peace treaty
|
| .7.1994 |
North Korea ejects IAAE
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| 8.7.1994 |
South Korean dictator Kim Ir-sen dies
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