| The
Cold War |
Date |
| The
Polish Government of National Unity
is formed. |
28th
June, 1945 |
| United
States, France, Britain
and the Soviet Union occupy zones
of Berlin. |
3rd
July, 1945 |
| United
States and Britain recognize
the government in Poland. |
5th
July, 1945 |
| Potsdam
Conference begins in Germany. |
17th
July, 1945 |
| Labour
Party wins a landslide victory in the 1945
General Election. |
26th
July, 1945 |
| Soviet
Union and Poland sign treaty
accepting Soviet-Polish frontier. |
16th
August, 1945 |
| Smallholders
Party wins the general election in Hungary. |
4th
November, 1945 |
| The
government of Enver Hoxha in Albania
is recognised by the Western powers. |
10th
November, 1945 |
| Josip
Tito and his National Front wins elections in Yugoslavia.
|
11th
November, 1945 |
| Polish
industrial enterprises employing more than 50 workers are
nationalized. |
1st
January, 1946 |
| First
session of the United Nations held
in London. |
10th
January, 1946 |
| Trygve
Lie from Norway is elected the
first secretary-general of United Nations.
|
1st
February, 1946 |
| Christian
Socialists win the Belgian elections. |
17th
February, 1946 |
| Winston
Churchill makes Iron Curtain speech in Fulton, Missouri. |
5th
March, 1946 |
| Soviet
Union agrees to withdraw Red Army
from Iran. |
5th
April, 1946 |
| Civil
war breaks out in Greece between
British-backed monarchists and communists. |
5th
May, 1946 |
| Communist
Party wins a majority in the general election in Czechoslovakia. |
26th
May, 1946 |
| George
Bidault of Popular Republican Movement becomes President
of France. |
19th
June, 1946 |
| Enrico
de Nicola is elected President of Italy. |
28th
June, 1946 |
| Klement
Gottwald becomes prime minister of Czechoslovakia.
|
3rd
July, 1946 |
| A
referendum in Greece restores
the monarchy. |
1st
September, 1946 |
| Georgi
Dimitrov and the Fatherland Front win general election
in Bulgaria. |
27th
October, 1946 |
| Communists
win most seats in the French National Assembly. |
10th
November, 1946 |
| United
Nations bars Spain from membership.
|
11th
December, 1946 |
| Leon
Blum forms socialist government in France.
|
16th
December, 1946 |
| Alcide
de Gasperi forms a new government in Italy. |
1st
February, 1947 |
| Clement
Attlee informs United States that
he is withdrawing British Army from Greece. |
21st
February, 1947 |
| Harry
Truman announces Truman Doctrine
and the provision of aid to Greece.
|
12th
March, 1947 |
| Paul
Spaak forms a coalition government in Belgium.
|
19th
March, 1947 |
| General
George C. Marshall announces
the Marshall Plan. |
5th
June, 1947 |
| Government
in Hungary announces a three-year
plan of nationalization. |
8th
August , 1947 |
| Belgium,
the Netherlands and Luxembourg ratify a customs union (Benelux). |
29th
October, 1947 |
| Robert
Schuman of Popular Republican Movement forms government
in France. |
23rd
November, 1947 |
| Greek
government outlaws the Communist Party. |
27th
December, 1947 |
| Jan
Masaryk, foreign minister in Czechoslovakia,
found dead, probably murdered. |
10th
March, 1948 |
| The
start of the Berlin Airlift.
|
1st
April, 1948 |
| Organization
for European Economic Cooperation (OEEC) set up in Paris.
|
16th
April, 1948 |
| President
Eduard Benes of Czechoslovakia
resigns.
|
19th
March, 1948 |
| Klement
Gottwald becomes President of Czechoslovakia.
|
14th
June, 1948 |
| The
Soviet Union blockades road and rail
traffic between Berlin and the West. |
24th
June , 1948 |
| Yugoslavia
is expelled from the Cominform. |
28th
June, 1948 |
| Wladyslaw
Gomulka is
forced to resign as leader of the Polish Workers' Party. |
3rd
September, 1948 |
| North
Atlantic Treaty (NATO) is founded to provide opposition
to the Soviet Union. |
4th
April, 1949 |
| The
Berlin Airlift comes to
an end. |
12th
May, 1949 |
| Federal
Republic of Germany (West Germany) comes into being. |
23rd
May, 1949 |
| Konrad
Adenauer becomes the Chancellor of Federal
Republic of Germany. |
12th
September, 1949 |
| German
Democratic Republic (East Germany) comes into being. |
7th
October, 1949 |
| Wilhelm
Pieck is elected president of the German
Democratic Republic. |
7th
October, 1949 |
| Monarchists
defeat communists in Civil War in Greece. |
16th
October, 1949 |
| The
Polish United Workers' Party is purged of supporters of Josip
Tito. |
11th
November, 1949 |
| Konrad
Adenauer advocates economic union between West
Germany and France. |
21st
March, 1950 |
| Robert
Schuman announces the Schuman
Plan in
France. |
9th
May, 1950 |
| Winston
Churchill calls for the creation of the European Army.
|
1st
July, 1950 |
| Winston
Churchill becomes prime minister for a second time. |
27th
October, 1951 |
| French
Assembly ratifies the Schuman Plan. |
13th
December, 1951 |
| Meeting
in Paris to discuss the idea of a European Defence Community. |
26th
January, 1952 |
| Winston
Churchill announces that Britain has an atom
bomb. |
26th
February, 1952 |
| European
Coal and Steel Community comes into being. |
1st
July, 1952 |
| Matyas
Rakosi become prime minister of Hungary. |
14th
August, 1952 |
| Rudolf
Slansky is executed in Czechoslovakia
for
Titoism. |
2nd
December, 1952 |
| Josip
Tito elected President of Yugoslavia.
|
14th
January, 1953 |
| Joseph
Stalin dies. |
5th
March, 1953 |
| Dag
Hammarskjold of Sweden is
elected secretary-general of the United
Nations. |
31st
March, 1953 |
| Soviet
troops crush workers rebellion in East
Germany. |
15th
June, 1953 |
| Matyas
Rakosi is replaced by Imre Nagy
as
prime minister of Hungary. |
4th
July, 1953 |
| Konrad
Adenauer wins West German
general election. |
6th
September, 1953 |
| Nikita
Khrushchev is appointed first secretary of the Soviet
Communist Party. |
12th
September, 1953 |
| Cardinal
Stefan Wyszynski is arrested
in Poland. |
26th
September, 1953 |
| The
dictator Antonio Salazar
wins
uncontested election in Portugal.
|
8th
November, 1953 |
| Lavrenti
Beria
executed in the Soviet Union. |
23rd
December, 1953 |
| Pierre
Mendes-France becomes prime minister of France.
|
18th
June, 1954 |
| France
agrees to leave North Vietnam. |
20th
July, 1954 |
| It
is agreed that West Germany
should join NATO. |
3rd
October, 1954 |
| Pierre
Mendes-France resigns as prime minister of France.
|
5th
February, 1954 |
| Gregory
Malenkov is replaced by Nikolai
Bulganin as
prime minister of the Soviet Union.
|
8th
February, 1954 |
| Imre
Nagy forced to resign as prime minister. |
18th
April, 1955 |
| Diplomatic
relations restored between West
Germany and the Soviet Union. |
13th
September, 1955 |
| Guy
Mollet forms a new government in France.
|
24th
January, 1956 |
| Nikita
Khrushchev denounces former leader Joseph
Stalin. |
25th
February, 1956 |
| The
Soviet Union abolishes the Cominform. |
17th
April, 1956 |
| Vyacheslav
Molotov is dismissed as Soviet foreign minister. |
1st
June, 1956 |
| President
Josip Tito visits
the Soviet Union. |
2nd
June, 1956 |
| 74
people are killed during political protests in Poland. |
28th
June, 1956 |
| Britain
and France refer the Suez Canal
dispute to the United Nations. |
23rd
September, 1956 |
| Guy
Mollet meets Anthony Eden
to
discuss the Suez Canal dispute.
|
16th
October, 1956 |
| Wladyslaw
Gomulka returns to power in Poland. |
21st
October, 1956 |
| Guy
Mollet, Anthony Eden and
David Ben-Gurion meet
in secret to discuss the Suez Canal.
|
21st
October, 1956 |
| Demonstrators
in Hungary call for democratic
government. |
23rd
October, 1956 |
| Imre
Nagy is appointed prime minister of Hungary.
|
24th
October, 1956 |
| Cardinal
Stefan Wyszynski is released
from prison in Poland. |
28th
October, 1956 |
| Janos
Kadar becomes leader of Hungarian Workers' Party. |
29th
October, 1956 |
| Imre
Nagy promises free elections in Hungary.
|
30th
October, 1956 |
| British
and French planes bomb Egyptian airfields. |
31st
October, 1956 |
| Imre
Nagy
renounces the Warsaw Treaty
and asks Soviet troops to leave Hungary.
|
2nd
November, 1956 |
| British
and French paratroopers land at Port Said in Egypt. |
5th
November, 1956 |
| The
Soviet Union threatens to intervene
in the war over the Suez Canal. |
6th
November, 1956 |
| Under
pressure from the United Nations Britain
and France accept a cease-fire in Egypt. |
7th
November, 1956 |
| The
United Nations demand the withdrawal of Soviet troops from
Hungary. |
8th
November, 1956 |
| Anthony
Eden
resigns as prime minister of Britain as a result of the Suez
Crisis. |
9th
January, 1957 |
| Harold
Macmillan
becomes prime minister of Britain. |
10th
January, 1957 |
| Andrei
Gromyko becomes foreign minister of the Soviet
Union. |
15th
February, 1957 |
| Belgium,
France, West Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands sign
Treaty of Rome. |
25th
March, 1957 |
| The
Soviet Union appeals to the United
States and Britain to cease
nuclear testing. |
10th
May, 1957 |
| Britain
carries out its first hydrogen bomb
test over Christmas Island. |
15th
May, 1957 |
| Guy
Mollet resigns as prime minister of France. |
21st
May, 1957 |
| General
Francisco Franco announces
that the monarchy will be restored on his death. |
15th
July, 1957 |
| Milovan
Djilas is imprisoned in Yugoslavia
for
spreading hostile propaganda. |
4th
October, 1957 |
| Felix
Gaillard becomes prime minister of France. |
30th
October, 1957 |
| Nikita
Khrushchev replaces Nikolai
Bulganin as
prime minister of the Soviet Union. |
27th
March, 1958 |
| Charles
De Gaulle forms a new government in France. |
1st
June, 1958 |
| Charles
De Gaulle is given permission to draw up a new constitution. |
2nd
June, 1958 |
| Imre
Nagy, former prime minister of Hungary,
is executed after a secret trial. |
17th
June, 1958 |
| Nikita
Khrushchev meets Mao Zedong
in China and call for an end of all nuclear testing. |
31st
August, 1958 |
| The
Soviet Union demands that all foreign
troops should be withdrawn from Berlin. |
27th
November, 1958 |
| Charles
De Gaulle is elected president of France
with 78% of the vote. |
21st
December, 1958 |
| Harold
Macmillan
and the Conservative Party
win British general election. |
8th
October, 1959 |
| American
U-2 spy plane shot over the
Soviet Union. |
1st
May, 1960 |
| Leonid
Brezhnev becomes president of the Soviet
Union. |
7th
May, 1960 |
| Nikita
Khrushchev walks out of summit meeting in Paris because
of the U-2 incident. |
19th
May, 1960 |
| United
Nations demand Belgian troops
leave the Congo Republic. |
8th
August, 1960 |
| East
Germany imposes blockade of West Berlin. |
30th
August, 1960 |
| Dag
Hammarskjold is killed in an airplane crash in the Congo
Republic. |
18th
September, 1961 |
| Nikita
Khrushchev and John Kennedy
agree
to establish a hot line to use in a Cold
War crisis. |
20th
June, 1963 |
| John
F. Kennedy visits
West Berlin. |
26th
June, 1963 |
| Soviet
Union, United States and Britain
sign a nuclear test-ban treaty. |
5th
August, 1963 |
| Harold
Macmillan
is replaced by Alec Douglas-Home. |
18th
October, 1963 |
| Harold
Wilson and the Labour Party
form the new government in Britain. |
15th
October, 1964 |
| Alexsei
Kosygin becomes prime minister of the Soviet
Union. |
15th
October, 1964 |
| European
Coal and Steel Community becomes European
Economic Community. |
8th
April, 1965 |
| The
Soviet Union admits to supplying
arms to North Vietnam. |
29th
September, 1965 |
| Charles
De Gaulle
defeats Francois Mitterrand
in
French presidential elections. |
19th
December, 1965 |
| France
ends its boycott of European Economic
Community meetings. |
30th
January, 1966 |
| Charles
De Gaulle calls for United States forces to leave Vietnam. |
21st
February, 1966 |
| France
withdraws its troops from NATO. |
10th
March, 1966 |
| The
Labour Party win the British general
election. |
31st
March, 1966 |
| General
Francisco Franco eases
press censorship in Spain. |
9th
April, 1966 |
| Harold
Wilson criticizes the United States for bombing populated
areas in North Vietnam. |
29th
June, 1966 |
| European
Economic Community agrees on its Common Agricultural Policy.
|
24th
July, 1966 |
| Milovan
Djilas is released from prison in Yugoslavia. |
31st
December, 1966 |
| Alexsei
Kosygin visits London to discuss the Vietnam War with
Harold Wilson. |
6th
February, 1967 |
| Britain,
Denmark and Ireland apply to join the European
Economic Community. |
11th
May, 1967 |
| Charles
De Gaulle vetoes British entry into the European
Economic Community. |
16th
May, 1967 |
| The
Soviet Union celebrates the 50th
anniversary of the Russian
Revolution. |
7th
November, 1967 |
| France
officially vetoes British entry into the European
Economic Community. |
19th
December, 1967 |
| Alexander
Dubcek became first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist
Party. |
5th
January, 1968 |
| Alexsei
Kosygin visits Czechoslovakia
to
meet Alexander Dubcek. |
17th
May, 1968 |
| French
government bans demonstrations and dissolves 11 student organizations. |
12th
June, 1968 |
| Alexander
Dubcek refuses to halt reform programme in Czechoslovakia. |
14th
July, 1968 |
| Warsaw
Pact forces invade Czechoslovakia
and arrest Alexander Dubcek. |
20th
August, 1968 |
| Ludvik
Svoboda
flies to Moscow to meet Soviet leaders. |
23rd
August, 1968 |
| Josip
Tito condemns
Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia. |
24th
August, 1968 |
| France
becomes the world's fifth nuclear power when it tested a hydrogen
bomb. |
25th
August, 1968 |
| Antonio
Salazar resigns as prime minister of Portugal. |
26th
September, 1968 |
| Sweden
become the first non-communist country to recognize North
Vietnam. |
10th
January, 1969 |
| General
Francisco Franco imposes
martial law in Spain. |
24th
January, 1969 |
| Gustav
Husak succeeds Alexander Dubcek
as
leader of the Czechoslovak Communist Party. |
17th
April, 1969 |
| Charles
De Gaulle resigns as president of France. |
28th
April, 1969 |
| Willy
Brandt becomes Chancellor of West
Germany. |
21st
October, 1969 |
| Bruno
Kreisky becomes Chancellor of Austria. |
1st
March, 1970 |
| Labour
Party defeated in the General Election and Edward
Heath becomes
new prime minister. |
19th
June, 1970 |
| Alexander
Dubcek expelled
from the Czechoslovak Communist Party. |
26th
June, 1970 |
| Erich
Honecker replace Walter Ulbricht
as
head of the Socialist Unity Party in East
Germany. |
3rd
May, 1971 |
| Willy
Brandt
is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. |
20th
October, 1971 |
| The
House of Commons votes to join
the European Economic Community.
|
28th
October, 1971 |
| Karl
Waldheim takes office as secretary-general of the United
Nations. |
31st
December, 1971 |
| Britain,
Denmark and Ireland apply to join the European
Economic Community. |
22nd
January, 1972 |
| United
States and the Soviet Union sign
agreement at the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks. |
3rd
October, 1972 |
| Britain,
Denmark and Ireland become members of the European
Economic Community. |
1st
January, 1973 |
| Leonid
Brezhnev visits West Germany. |
24th
June, 1973 |
| Spanish
prime minister, Luis Carrero Blanco,
assassinated in Madrid. |
20th
December, 1973 |
|
The Soviet Union expels the dissident
author Alexander Solzhenitsyn.
|
13th
February, 1974 |
| Edward
Heath resigns as prime minister and Harold
Wilson forms
a minority administration. |
4th
March, 1974 |
| Willy
Brandt resigns after a close aid admits to spying for
East Germany. |
6th
May, 1974 |
| Valery
Giscard d'Estaing defeats Francois
Mitterrand to
become president of France. |
19th
May, 1974 |
| Jacques
Chirac become prime minister of France. |
27th
May, 1974 |
| Vasco
Goncalves gains power in Portugal.
|
14th
July, 1974 |
| The
United States and East
Germany establish diplomatic relations. |
4th
September, 1974 |
| Helmut
Schmidt of West Germany
holds talks with Leonid Brezhnev
in
Moscow. |
28th
October, 1974 |
| Leonid
Brezhnev meets
Gerald Ford to discuss arms control. |
23rd
November, 1974 |
| First
free elections in Portugal for
50 years. |
25th
April, 1975 |
| Mario
Soares becomes prime minister of Portugal. |
26th
April, 1975 |
| A
referendum approves British membership of European
Economic Community. |
5th
June, 1975 |
| An
attempted coup by paratroops in Portugal
is defeated. |
26th
November, 1975 |
| James
Callaghan
replaces Harold Wilson
as
prime minister of Britain. |
5th
April, 1976 |
| Adolfo
Suarez becomes prime minister of Spain. |
1st
July, 1976 |
| Roy
Jenkins becomes president of the European
Economic Community Commission. |
6th
January, 1977 |
| China
and the European Economic Community
conclude its first trade agreement. |
3rd
February, 1978 |
| Aldo
Moro, the former Italian prime minister is kidnapped by
the Red Brigade. |
16th
March, 1978 |
| Helmut
Schmidt of West Germany
proposes a European Monetary System (EMS). |
7th
April, 1978 |
| Aldo
Moro dead body is found in the boot of a Renault car in
Rome. |
9th
May, 1978 |
| Margaret
Thatcher and the Conservative
Party win the British general election. |
2nd
May, 1979 |
| Greece
applies to join the European Economic
Community. |
28th
May, 1979 |
| First
direct elections for the European Parliament are held. |
7th
June, 1979 |
| Vaclav
Havel is convicted of subversion in Czechoslovakia. |
23rd
October, 1979 |
| Margaret
Thatcher demands a rebate for Britain from the European
Economic Community. |
29th
November, 1979 |
| The
dissent physicist Andrey Sakharov
is sent into exile. |
22nd
January, 1980 |
| Valery
Giscard d'Estaing discloses France's capability to produce
the neutron bomb. |
26th
June, 1980 |
| Lech
Walesa signs an agreement with the Polish government for
free trade unions. |
31st
August, 1980 |
| European
Economic Community warns the Soviet
Union about invading Poland. |
2nd
December, 1980 |
| Greece
joins the European Economic Community.
|
1st
January, 1981 |
| General
Wojciech
Jaruzelski
becomes
prime minister of Poland. |
11th
February, 1981 |
| Attempted
coup by Civil Guards in Spain fails. |
23rd
February, 1981 |
| The
Soviet Union accuses Solidarnosc
of
being counter-revolutionary. |
27th
March, 1981 |
| Francois
Mitterrand
defeats Valery Giscard d'Estaing
and is elected president of France. |
10th
May, 1981 |
| The
French government nationalizes 36 banks and 11 industrial
groups. |
8th
September, 1981 |
| The
French National Assembly abolishes the death penalty. |
30th
September, 1981 |
|
European Community imposes economic
sanctions on Argentina. |
11th
April, 1982 |
| The
British submarine HMS Conqueror sinks the Argentine cruiser
General Belgrano. |
2nd
May, 1982 |
| Argentine
forces surrender at Port Stanley ending the Falklands War.
|
14th
June, 1982 |
| Helmet
Kohl becomes the new prime minister of West
Germany. |
17th
September, 1982 |
| Olof
Palme and the Social Democratic Labour Party win general
election in Sweden. |
19th
September, 1982 |
| Felipe
Gonzalez and the Socialist Workers' Party win the Spanish
general election. |
28th
October, 1982 |
| Lech
Walesa
is released from detention. |
12th
November, 1982 |
| Margaret
Thatcher and the Conservative
Party win the British general election. |
9th
June, 1983 |
| The
Polish government announces an end to martial law. |
21st
July, 1983 |
| Yuri
Andropov
announces an increase in the number of missiles aimed at the
United States. |
23rd
November, 1983 |
| Konstantin
Chernenko
replaces Yuri
Andropov as
leader of the Soviet Communist Party. |
13th
February, 1984 |
|
Andrey Sakharov begins a hunger
strike. |
2nd
May, 1984 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
meets Margaret Thatcher in
London. |
15th
December, 1984 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
is named first secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. |
11th
March, 1985 |
| European
Economic Community agrees to accept Spain and Portugal
as members. |
29th
March, 1985 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
announces a moratorium on Soviet missile deployments in Europe. |
7th
April, 1985 |
| Enver
Hoxha
dies in Albania. |
11th
April, 1985 |
| Andrei
Gromyko
is named president of the Soviet Union.
|
2nd
July, 1985 |
| Laurent
Fabius admits that the Greenpeace ship was sunk by French
secret service. |
22nd
September, 1985 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
and Ronald Reagan agree to open
negotiations on arms reductions. |
19th
November, 1985 |
| Spain
and Portugal join the European
Economic Community. |
1st
January, 1986 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
proposes a 15 year timetable for the elimination of all nuclear
weapons. |
25th
January, 1986 |
| Olof
Palme, prime minister of Sweden,
assassinated in Stockholm. |
28th
February, 1986 |
| Jacques
Chirac becomes prime minister of France. |
16th
March, 1986 |
| Soviet
and Israeli leaders hold talks to discuss the treatment of
Jews in the Soviet
Union. |
18th
August, 1986 |
| The
European Economic Community agrees
to end investment in South Africa. |
16th
September, 1986 |
| It
is admitted that money from arms sales to Iran was illegally
passed to Contras. |
25th
November, 1986 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
orders the release of Andrey Sakharov. |
23rd
December, 1986 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
proposes reforms including secret ballot and the election
of party officials. |
27th
January, 1987 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
proposes abolishing intermediate-range nuclear weapons in
Europe. |
28th
February, 1987 |
| Gustav
Husak
in Czechoslovakia
announces
political and economic reforms. |
19th
March, 1987 |
| Karl
Waldheim, the Austrian president, is accused of involvement
in Nazi atrocities. |
27th
April, 1987 |
| Margaret
Thatcher and the Conservative
Party win the British general election. |
11th
June, 1987 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
offers to dismantle all short and medium range nuclear missiles. |
22nd
July, 1987 |
| Erich
Honecker
begins the first official visit to West
Germany by a leader of East
Germany. |
7th
September, 1987 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
makes a speech criticizing the political errors of Joseph
Stalin. |
2nd
November, 1987 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
and Ronald Reagan agree to eliminate
intermediate-range nuclear forces. |
7th
December, 1987 |
| International
Commission clears Karl Waldheim
of war crimes. |
8th
February, 1988 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
announces the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan.
|
8th
February, 1988 |
| Seven
leaders of Solidarnosc
are
arrested during shipyard strike in Poland. |
2nd
May, 1988 |
| Jacques
Chirac defeats Francois
Mitterrand to
become president of France. |
8th
May, 1988 |
| Several
conservatives, including Andrei
Gromyko,
are purged from the Soviet Politburo. |
30th
September, 1988 |
| Vaclav
Havel is imprisoned for inciting public disorder in Czechoslovakia. |
21st
February, 1989 |
| A
large rally in Hungary
calls
for the introduction of democracy. |
15th
March, 1989 |
| Lech
Walesa
and the Polish government sign an agreement for political
and economic reform. |
5th
April, 1989 |
| Solidarnosc
is
legalized in Poland. |
17th
April, 1989 |
| The
Polish United Workers' Party and Solidarnosc
agree
to form a coalition government. |
19th
August, 1989 |
| New
Forum, a anti-communist group, is formed in East
Germany. |
11th
September, 1989 |
| The
first noncommunist government in Eastern Europe since the
war is formed in Poland. |
12th
September, 1989 |
| Poland
offers sanctuary to anti-communists in East
Germany. |
11th
October, 1989 |
| Erich
Honecker
resigns as leader of the Communist Party in East
Germany. |
18th
October, 1989 |
| A
new multiparty democracy is announced in Hungary. |
23rd
October, 1989 |
|
The new government in East Germany
announces the opening of its border with West
Germany. |
9th
November, 1989 |
| The
government in East Germany
orders the Berlin
Wall to
be pulled down. |
10th
November, 1989 |
| A
general strike in Czechoslovakia
calls
for an end to communist rule. |
27th
November, 1989 |
| The
Czeechoslovak prime minister announces the end of the communist
monopoly of power. |
28th
November, 1989 |
| The
governments of the United States and
the Soviet Union announce the end
of the Cold War. |
2nd
December, 1989 |
| Yugoslavia's
Communist Party votes to abolish its monopoly on power. |
22nd
January, 1990 |
| The
Soviet Union agrees to withdraw its
troops from Czechoslovakia.
|
26th
February, 1990 |
| Lithuania
declares its independence from the Soviet
Union. |
11th
March, 1990 |
| Alliance
for Germany win first free elections in East
Germany since 1933. |
18th
March, 1990 |
| Latvia
declares its independence from the Soviet
Union. |
4th
May, 1990 |
| East
Germany and West Germany
sign a reunification treaty. |
31st
August, 1990 |
| Mikhail
Gorbachev
wins the Nobel Peace Prize. |
15th
October, 1990 |
| Margaret
Thatcher resigns as prime minister of Britain. |
28th
October, 1990 |
| Helmet
Kohl is elected president of a united Germany. |
2nd
December, 1990 |
| Lech
Walesa
wins presidential elections in Poland. |
9th
December, 1990 |
