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01 Mar
1950: Communist spy jailed for 14 years
25 Jun
1950: UN condemns North Korean invasion
25 Sep
1950: Seoul in UN hands
05 Dec
1950: Pyongyang taken as UN retreats
30 Mar
1951: Rosenbergs guilty of espionage
05 Mar
1953: Soviet leader 'on brink of death'
16 Mar
1953: Marshal Tito makes historic visit to London
18 Feb
1954: McCarthy hunts 'army Communists'
21 Jul
1954: Peace deal ends Indo-China war
02 Dec
1954: US pledges to defend Nationalist China
02 Dec
1954: US Senate condemns McCarthy
10 Feb
1955: US evacuates Pacific islands
14 May
1955: Communist states sign Warsaw Pact
25 Feb
1956: Khrushchev lashes out at Stalin
18 Jun
1956: Truman rejects anti-Stalin talk
23 Oct
1956: Hungarians rise up against Soviet rule
04 Nov
1956: Soviet troops overrun Hungary
31 May
1957: Arthur Miller guilty of contempt
07 Aug
1958: Arthur Miller cleared of contempt
16 Feb
1959: Castro sworn in as Cuban PM
23 Feb
1959: Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace
24 Jul
1959: Khrushchev and Nixon have war of words
31 Aug
1959: Anglo-US TV debate makes history
17 May
1960: East-West summit in tatters after spy plane row
01 May
1961: Victorious Castro bans elections
17 Jun
1961: Russian dancer in freedom dash
28 Oct
1962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends
14 May
1964: Nasser and Khrushchev divert the Nile
15 Oct
1964: Khrushchev 'retires' as head of USSR
07 Feb
1966: Hawaii hosts US-Vietnamese summit
01 Nov
1966: Viet Cong bombs Saigon
09 Mar
1967: Stalin's daughter defects to the West
09 Oct
1967: Che Guevara 'shot dead'
21 Aug
1968: Russia brings winter to 'Prague Spring'
26 Jan
1969: Prague riots over student martyr
24 Jul
1969: Briton freed from Soviet prison
15 Oct
1969: Millions march in US Vietnam Moratorium
19 Mar
1970: Willi and Willy meet in East Germany
30 Sep
1971: Foreign Office names Soviet superspy
30 Sep
1971: 'I arrested a KGB superspy'
21 Feb
1972: Nixon makes historic visit to China
04 Feb
1973: Vietnam observers' struggle for peace
14 Feb
1974: Russian author charged with treason
24 Jun
1974: Labour rift over nuclear test
24 May
1975: Journalists leave fallen Saigon
22 Jul
1977: Deng Xiaoping back in power
29 Apr
1978: Afghan coup rebels claim victory
14 Aug
1980: Shipyard Poles strike for their rights
13 Dec
1981: Military crackdown on Polish people
10 Nov
1982: Brezhnev rumours sweep Moscow
12 Nov
1982: Solidarity leader Walesa released
23 Jun
1983: Pope meets banned union leader Walesa
01 Sep
1983: Korean airliner 'shot down'
25 Oct
1983: US troops invade Grenada
26 Apr
1984: Reagan arrives in China
26 Sep
1984: UK and China agree Hong Kong handover
16 Dec
1984: Gorbachev visit to Britain a 'success'
11 Mar
1985: Gorbachev becomes Soviet leader
28 Aug
1985: East Germans charged with espionage
23 Dec
1986: Sakharov comes in from the cold
13 Sep
1988: Cubans blame shooting on 'CIA plot'
09 Oct
1988: Latvia cries freedom from Moscow
27 Mar
1989: Millions of Russians go to the polls
04 Jun
1989: Massacre in Tiananmen Square
05 Jun
1989: Election boost for Solidarity
16 Jun
1989: Hungary reburies fallen hero Imre Nagy
09 Nov
1989: Berliners celebrate the fall of the Wall
07 Nov
1989: Protests force out East German rulers
18 Nov
1989: Protesters demand reform in Bulgaria
17 Nov
1989: Police crush Prague protest rally
24 Nov
1989: New era for Czechoslovakia
22 Dec
1989: Brandenburg Gate re-opens
22 Jan
1990: Gorbachev explains crackdown in Azerbaijan
28 Jan
1990: Romanians call for government change
03 May
1990: Latvia to declare independence
12 Jul
1990: Yeltsin resignation splits Soviet Communists
13 Jan
1991: Bloodshed at Lithuanian TV station
23 Aug
1991: Gorbachev punishes coup plotters
25 Dec
1991: Gorbachev resigns as Soviet Union breaks up
02 Oct
1993: Hardline Communists riot in Moscow
27 May
1994: Dissident writer Solzhenitsyn returns
19 Feb
1997: China's reformist Deng Xiaoping dies
25 Aug
1997: East German leader guilty of Berlin Wall deaths
06 Oct
2000: Milosevic quits, street celebrations continue
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