the fall of the Berlin Wall and the breakup of the Soviet Union.
1980 BCE
In 1980 Ronald Reagan was elected president of the USA and the period of détente ended. The USA developed nuclear missiles which could be launched from almost anywhere.
1968 BCE
In Czechoslovakia, the czech government, led by Dubcek, tried to install its own type of socialism (Socialism with a Human Face).
1964 BCE
Civil Rights Act was finally passed
1964 BCE
Leonid Brezhnev led the USSR between Khrushchev’s death in. He stopped all Khrushchev’s reforms. His external policy switched from coexistence to tension with the USA
1963 BCE
When Stalin died he was succeeded by Nikita Khrushchev, who began a process of DeStalinization to fight the abuse of power of cult of personality of the previous leader.
1961 BCE
The Democrat John Fitzgerald Kennedy became the president in 1961 and tensions with the eastern bloc were reduced.
1957 BCE
. It constituted the creation of the European Economic Community (EEC) or Common Market.
1956 BCE
Polish workers in Poznan went on strike but were soon controlled by Russian troops.
1956 BCE
In Hungary, the people of Budapest protested against the harsh government of Rakosi.
1955 BCE
In 1949, the Western Powers formed NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) against the communist threat. The Eastern Bloc formed the Warsaw Pact .
1951 BCE
Treaty of Paris.It involved the creation of the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) It was signed by France, Western Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg. It created a free-trade area for coal and steel in the signing countries.
1950 BCE
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Schuman, proposed on 9th May 1950 the creation of a common market of coal and steel to avoid rivalries and to be more competent.
1950 BCE
The French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Robert Schuman, proposed on the creation of a common market of coal and steel to avoid rivalries and to be more competent.
1949 BCE
two new states were formed: the German Federal Republic (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic. The frontier between Eastern and Western Europe had been drawn in Berlin.
1948 BCE
Benelux Customs Union . It was an agreement that was signed by Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg in order to remove customs and to promote free movement of capital, goods, and workers.
1946 BCE
The British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, suggested that Europe could compete with the USA and the USSR as a leading nation.
1945 BCE
The USSR controlled Eastern Europe,Poland, Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Bulgaria had pro-soviet Communist governments controlled by USSR (Stalin).
Period: 1945 BCE to 1960 BCE
there were many anti-communist measures implemented by the Republican presidents Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhower.
