Events of the world from 1949-1993

By ashlynfuchs1

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes President

  • Soviets successfully test hydrogen bomb

  • Warsaw pact signed

    signed by USSR, Poland, Romania, Hungary, E. Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Albania

  • Russian Sputnik satellite launched

  • Period: to

    Great Chinese famine

    kills an estimated 36 million people

  • Fidel Castro establishes communist dictatorship in Cuba

  • Congo gains independence from Belgium

  • Berlin wall built

    built between East and West Germany

  • South Africa declares republic

    leaves British Commonwealth

  • US President John F Kennedy shot

  • Nelson Mandela jailed for campaigning against apartheid in South Africa

  • Civil Rights Act passed in US

  • Cultural Revolution begins in China

  • Moammar al-Qaddafi leads military coup in Libya

  • Neil Armstrong becomes first man to walk on Moon

  • Treaty recognizes East and West Germany as sovereign states

  • Saudi Arabia leads huge oil price increases - world economy slows

  • Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

  • Iranian Hostage Crisis - hostages held in US Embassy in Tehran

    hostages held in US Embassy in Tehran

  • Eruption of Mount St Helens

    60 people killed

  • Chernobyl nuclear power station explodes

    contaminates most of Europe

  • Berlin Wall demolished

  • Hubble Space Telescope launched

  • USSR breaks up into constituent countries - end of Soviet era

    end of Soviet era

  • North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) established

  • Princess Diana "killed" in Paris car accident

    c'mon..it was planned

  • Bill Clinton acquitted in impeachment trial