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18 May
1950: US and Europe agree Nato aims
21 Jul
1954: Peace deal ends Indo-China war
09 May
1955: West Germany accepted into Nato
14 May
1955: Communist states sign Warsaw Pact
11 Apr
1957: Britain agrees to Singapore self-rule
23 Feb
1959: Macmillan and Khrushchev talk peace
17 May
1960: East-West summit in tatters after spy plane row
28 Oct
1962: World relief as Cuban missile crisis ends
25 May
1963: African states unite against white rule
06 Feb
1964: Green light for Channel Tunnel
07 Feb
1966: Hawaii hosts US-Vietnamese summit
30 May
1967: Egypt and Jordan unite against Israel
25 Jun
1970: New peace plan for Middle East
27 Sep
1970: Arab leaders sign Jordan peace deal
23 Jan
1971: Britain allowed to sell arms to S Africa
22 May
1972: President Nixon arrives in Moscow
04 Feb
1973: Vietnam observers' struggle for peace
30 Jul
1974: Peace deal for Cyprus
11 Dec
1975: Attack on British vessels heightens Cod War
05 Dec
1977: Egypt severs ties with Arab hardliners
03 Feb
1978: Sadat in US for Mid East talks
18 Apr
1978: Carter wins Panama Canal battle
18 Sep
1978: Arab-Israeli breakthrough in US
15 Dec
1982: Spain opens border with the Rock
26 Apr
1984: Reagan arrives in China
26 Sep
1984: UK and China agree Hong Kong handover
19 Nov
1985: Superpower summit 'off to good start'
21 Nov
1985: Superpowers aim for 'safer world'
12 Oct
1986: Reykjavik summit ends in failure
18 Sep
1987: Superpower treaty to scrap warheads
15 Oct
1987: Fiji one step closer to a republic
08 Dec
1987: Superpowers to reverse arms race
14 Apr
1988: USSR pledges to leave Afghanistan
31 Jul
1991: Superpowers to cut nuclear warheads
30 Oct
1991: Bush opens historic Mid East peace conference
07 Feb
1992: Maastricht treaties make EU official
26 Oct
1994: Israel and Jordan make peace
21 Nov
1995: Balkan leaders agree to peace
14 Dec
1995: Bosnia peace accord ends three-year war
31 Jul
1998: UK imposes total ban on landmines
04 Dec
2003: US pulls back from steel trade war
19 Dec
2003: Libya gives up chemical weapons
28 Jun
2004: US transfers power back to Iraq
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