1945

4.-11.2

Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin meet at Yalta

8.5

End of World War 2 in Europe

26.6

Signing of the Charta UN in San Francisco

17.7-2.

Stalin, Churchill/Atlee and Truman meet in Potsdam

6.8-9.

A-bomb drops on Japan

14.9.

Capitulation of Japan

1946

15.3

Churchill's speech about the Iron Curtain

1947

10.2

Paris peace talks

12.3

Announcement of Truman's doctrine

5.6

Start of the supporting Marshall's plan

5.10

Founding of Informbyro

1948

June

Beginning of the Berlin blockade and the forming of the air bridge

2.11

Truman re-elected president

1949

18.1

Founding of the CMEA (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance)

4.4

North Atlantic Alliance entered by 11 states.

May

End of the Berlin blockade

23.5

Forming of West Germany

29.

First atom bomb test in the USSR

7.10

Forming of East Germany

1950

1952

1.6

Fortification of the inter-German border

3.10

First British atom bomb test

1.11

First US hydrogen bomb test

4.11

Eisenhower elected president

1953

5.3

Stalin dies

17.6

Labour workers stand-up in East Berlin

27.6

End of the Korean War

12.9

Khrushchev becomes the Chairman of the Communistic Party

1955

9.5

West Germany enters NATO

14.5

Forming of the Warsaw Pact

1956

14.2

The 20th summit of the CPSU. Later, February 25, Khrushchev's allegations of Stalin's reign

17.4

Informbyro dismissed

23.10

Hungarian stand-up starts

31.10-7.11

British-French offense in Suez

4.10

Soviet army enters Budapest

6.10

Eisenhower re-elected president

1957

15.2

Gromyko named Minister of Foreign Affairs of USSR

4.10

USSR announced the release of Sputnik 1

1959

16.2

Castro becomes prime minister of Cuba

15.9

Khrushchev starts his visit to the USA

1960

13.2

French atom bomb test

1.5

U-2 plane shot down over the USSR

16.5

Four super powers meeting in Paris

August

Soviet technicians called off China

8.11

Kennedy wins presidential election

1961

12.4

The flight of Yuri Gagarin

13.4

Sealing of the East German border in Berlin

17.4

Building of the Berlin Wall

1962

22-27.10

Cuban rocket crisis

1963

20.6

USA and USSR established a "hotline" connection

26.6

Kennedy visits Berlin

25.7

USA and USSR sign nuclear testing ban treaty

22.11

Kennedy killed, Johnson takes over presidency

1964

15.10

Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as chairman of CPSU

16.10

Chinese atomic bomb test

3.11

Johnson wins presidential election

1965

febr./mar

Conflict between USA and Viet-cong flames up

1966

1.6

France quits NATO command

1967

27.1

USA, USSR and UK sign aerial nuclear test ban treaty

5-10.6

6-days war in Near East

1968

30.1

Viet-Kong starts Tat offensive

1.7

USA, USSR and UK sign anti nuclear arms proliferation treaty

20-21.

Warsaw pact armies enter CSSR

5.11

Nixon elected for president

1969

6.1

French weapons sales to Israel banned

18.1

Four-party conference about Vietnam in Paris

20.1

Nixon enters White House

21.1

Soviet-Jordan treaty about technical and economical cooperation

28.1

Gromyko accuses USA of violating Laos' inner affairs

22.2

Nationalist offensive in South Vietnam

24.2

Nixon starts his journey across Western Europe

26.2

USSR proposes a new definition of armed aggression in the UN

2.3

Soviet-Chinese conflict (Chinese assault on the Ussuri river)

17.3

Member states of the Warsaw pact proposed a conference about European security

18.3

Heavy US bombardment in Cambodia

25.3

Pakistani president M.Ajub Khan resigns after civil disorders. The government was appointed by Jahra Khan.

1.4

Lin Piao successes Mao Tse-tung

11.4

The Soviets re-established conference with China from 1964

27.4

Referendum held in France, de Gaulle steps down

26.5

Soviet-French agreement about economical and trade cooperation for years 1970-74

3.6

Soviet-British long-term business agreement for years 1969-75

5-17.6

International meeting of 75 communistic and workmen's parties in Moscow

13.6

Soviet government accepted the temporary government of South-Vietnam

15.6

G.Pompidou elected new French president

5.

First secret meeting of H.Kissinger and Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam

1.9

Government overthrown in Lybia, lead taken by colonel Qaddafi

3.9

North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Min dies

11.9

USSR ministers' chairman A.Kosygin in Beijing

19.9

USSR proposes a meeting about strengthening international security at the UN General Assembly

15.10

Moratorium in the US - demonstration against Vietnam War

20.10

China and USSR start negotiations in Beijing

21.10

W. Brandt becomes West German chancellor

30-31.10

Conference between ministers of foreign affairs about preparations of the European conference in Paris

3.11

Nixon declared vietnamization plan

15.11

Biggest anti-ear demonstration in the USA

17.11

First round of the SALT negotiations between USA and USSR in Helsinki

24.11

SALT ratified by both parties

1970

3.-21.3

Negotiations between West Germany and USSR about the act of no use of military power. (first round was held on 30.1-18.2)

5.3

The Nuclear Arms Proliferation Treaty became valid. Ratification documents held in Moscow, Washington and London.

17.3

Lon Nol's overthrow in Cambodia. Sinahuk creates an exile government in Beijing.

19.3

Prime minister of East Germany, W.Stroph meets bundeskanzler W.Brandt in Erfurt

30.4

US and Saigon troops intervention in Cambodia

4.5

Soviet declaration of US intervention in Cambodia

Four Ohio University students killed by a demonstration against the intervention in Cambodia

5.5

Senate of the USA stopped every financial support to US troops in Cambodia as of 30.6.1970

6.5

USSR and CSSR sign bilateral support treaty

27.5

East German prime minister W.Stoph visits West German Kassel.

11.6

USSR agrees to continue support Vietnam

18.6

Návrat brit. konzervatívcov k moci - E.Heath becomes prime minister

12.8

W.Brandt signed treaty about cooperation between Moscow and West Germany

1.-8.9

Jordanian war

28.9

Egyptian president Gamál Abd an-Násír dies. Anwar Sadat named new president

27.10

Soviet protest against US and Turkey violations of Soviet airspace.

28.10

People's (communistic) party wins Chilean election

3.11

Salvador Allende elected president in Chile

9.11

General Charles de Gaulle dies

Soviet government opposes Portuguese aggression in Guinea

December

Elections in Pakistan - won by Awami League, demanding autonomy for East Pakistan

7.12

W.Brandt signs cooperation treaty between Poland and West Germany

1971

10.4

US ping-pong team arrives in China

25.10

China entered UNO, Taiwan expelled

1972

21.2

Nixon starts his visit to China

10.4

USA and USSR sign biological weapons ban treaty

22.5

Nixon starts his visit to Moscow

26.5

USA and USSR sign SALT 1

7.11

Nixon re-elected for president

21.12

West and East Germany sign Basic mutual relations treaty

1973

27.1

Vietnamese peace treaty signed in Paris becomes valid.

March

US army troops withdraw Vietnam

October

Arabian-Israeli October war

23.12

Oil producers in Persian Gulf double the oil price

1974

8.-9.

Nixon resigns, he is replaced by Ford

24.11

Ford a Brezhnev agree about the layout of the strategic arms control treaty (SALT 2)

1975

30.4

End of the Vietnamese war

17.7

Common Soyuz-Apollo flight

1.

Helsinki declaration signed

November

Angolan civil war

1976

2.11

Carter wins election

1977

October

USSR starts SS-20 rocket deployment

1979

1.1

USA and China begin to establish diplomatic bonds.

18.6

Carter and Brezhnev sign SALT 2

25.12

Soviet troops enter Afghanistan

1980

4.1

USA stop wheat sales to the USSR

July

International boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games

22.9

Start of the Iran-Iraqi war

4.11

Reagan elected for president

1981

13.12

Martial law declared in Poland

29.12

USA lays economic sanctions on USSR and Poland

1982

16.3

Brezhnev freezes the deployment of the SS-20 rockets west of Ural

10.11

Brezhnev dies and is replaced by Andropov

1983

marec

Reagan declares the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI)

21.7

Martial law canceled in Poland

1984

17.1

NATO and Warsaw Pact arms limitation talks start

9.2

Andropov dies and is replaced by Chernenko

August

Most of East Europe countries boycott Los Angeles Olympic Games

1985

4.2

Reagan requests three times military budget rise to support SDI

10.3

Chernenko dies

11.3

Gorbachev named Chairman of Central Committee of the CPSU

7.4

Gorbachev declares definitive stop of missile deployment in Europe

2.7

Schevarnadze replaces Gromyko as Minister of Foreign Affairs

21.11

First meeting of Gorbachev and Reagan in Geneva

1986

11-12.10

Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Reykjavik

1987

25.6

Gorbachev outlines several reforms to Soviet economy

8-10.12

Gorbachev and Reagan meet in Washington, middle-range missiles ban treaty signed

1988

16.7

Warsaw pact demands a three-step decrease of conventional weapon units in Europe

20.

Iran-Iraqi war ends

8.11

Bush wins election

1989

10.1

Cuban troops start to leave Angola

15.2

Full retreat of Soviet forces from Afghanistan

4.6

Solidarita wins elections in Poland

10.9

Hungary allows East Germans to enter Austria through their border

2.10

Start of pro-democratic changes in East Germany

7.10

Hungarian socialistic labour party proclaims self-dismissal

9.11

East Germany opens West German border

2-3.12

Bush and Gorbachev meet off the Maltanian coast

10.12

Non-communistic government seize power in Czechoslovakia

22.12

Ceausesco's government overthrown in Rumania

1990

11.2

Mandela released from prison

18.3

Free elections in East Germany

21.3

Namibia becomes independent

9.

Iraq invades Kuwait

3.10

Re-union of Germany

19-21.11

Force limitation treaty signed by Warshaw pact and NATO in Paris on a OECD meeting

1991

16.1-8.2

Persian gulf war

June

Slovenian and Croatian war starts

29.6

CMEA dismissed

1.7

Warsaw pact dismissed

31.7

Bush and Gorbachev sign START 1

19-21.

Hard-line communists try to overthrow the government in USSR

29.

Soviet President stops activity of CPSU

8.12

USSR dismissed, Commonwealth of Independent States created

25.12

Gorbachev resigns his post of President of Soviet Union, formal dismissal of USSR

1992

April

Bosnian war starts

25.4

Communistic government collapses in Afghanistan

3.11

Clinton wins election

1993

1.1

Slovak and Czech Republics founded

3.1

Bush and Yeltsin sign START 2

4.10

End of Moscow up stand

1.11

European Union founded (Maastricht agreement)

12.12

First multi-party elections in Russia

1994

11.1

NATO presents the "Partnership for peace" program

15.4

Uruguyan round of GATT talks accepted

9.5

Mandela elected president of Republic of South Africa

June

Russia signs Partnership for peace treaty

July

North Korea ejects IAAE

8.7

South Korean dictator Kim Ir-sen dies