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