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|COUNTRY |
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|1917 |
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|October |
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|The October Revolution; Vladimir Lenin establishes a Communist government. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|1922 |
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|Joseph Stalin becomes general secretary of the Communist party. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|1945 |
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|February |
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|Poland’s postwar fate is decided at Yalta. |
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|Poland |
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|1945 |
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|February |
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|At Yalta, the Allies agree to allow the Soviets to retain positions in Eastern Europe. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|1946 |
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|February |
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|Hungary is declared a republic after the abolition of the monarchy. |
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|Hungary |
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|1946 |
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|November |
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|A Communist-dominated front takes control. |
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|Romania |
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|1947 |
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|January |
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|The Communist party gains control. |
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|Poland |
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|1947 |
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|August |
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|Elections give the Communist-dominated leftist block 46 percent of the vote. |
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|Hungary |
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|1948 |
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|May |
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|The Communist-dominated National Front wins an electoral victory. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|1948 |
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|June |
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|Soviets begin a blockade of Berlin, and Allies respond with an airlift. |
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|East Germany |
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|1953 |
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|March 5, |
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|Stalin dies; Nikita Khrushchev succeeds him. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|1955 |
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|May 14, |
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|The Warsaw Pact is formed. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|1956 |
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|June |
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|Strikes break out in Poznan; 57 people are killed. |
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|Poland |
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|1956 |
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|October / |
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November |
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Oh, what a pleasure once again |
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|Imre Nagy becomes prime minister; more than twenty thousand people are killed in two waves of Soviet invasions. |
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|Hungary |
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Freely to breathe the fresh air! |
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|1956 |
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In Heaven |
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|November |
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|Nagy is replaced by Janos Kadar. |
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|Hungary |
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One of them. |
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|1961 |
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|August |
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Let us in Heaven trust; |
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|The Berlin Wall is erected. |
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|East Germany |
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On Heaven depend our hopes: |
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|1964 |
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He will on our griefs look with pity. |
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|October |
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|Khrushchev is ousted and replaced as general secretary by Leonid Brezhnev. |
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On His goodness all things depend. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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All. |
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|1965 |
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|July |
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Oh, liberty! oh, salvation! |
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|Nicolae Ceausescu becomes general secretary. |
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|Romania |
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Oh, God, upon our miseries have pity! |
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|1968 |
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Prisoner. |
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|January |
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|The beginning of the Prague Spring. |
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Silence! make no noise! |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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Pizarro |
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|1968 |
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|March |
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All. |
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|Student riots take place in Warsaw. |
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|Poland |
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Silence! make no noise! |
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|1968 |
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Pizarro |
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|August 31, |
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|Soviet troops lead a Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. |
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Oh! what a pleasure once again |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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Freely to breathe the fresh air! |
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|1969 |
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|March |
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In Heaven |
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|Gustav Husak becomes general secretary. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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From death we have escaped. |
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|1970 |
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|December |
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|Riots and strikes occur in Polish coastal cities; more than three hundred are reported killed. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1971 |
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|May |
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|Erich Honecker becomes general secretary. |
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|East Germany |
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|1977 |
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|January |
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|Charter 77 is circulated. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1977 |
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|August |
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|Miners in the Jiu Valley strike over living standards and pension cuts. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1978 |
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|October 16, |
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|Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow is elected Pope, taking the name John Paul II. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1980 |
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|January 15, |
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|Five thousand demonstrators in Prague’s Wenceslas Square commemorate Jan Palach’s suicide in 1969; Vaclav Havel and other dissidents are arrested. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1980 |
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|August |
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|Eighty thousand workers take over the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk; strikes break out throughout the country. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1980 |
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|August 31, |
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|Poland’s Communist government signs agreement with strike committee in Gdansk; Solidarity era begins. |
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|Poland |
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|1981 |
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|December 13, |
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|Martial law is imposed; Solidarity is banned; thousands are imprisoned. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1985 |
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|March 11, |
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|Mikhail Gorbachev is named as general secretary. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1986 |
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|March 17, |
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|The Communist party approves “truly revolutionary changes” in the economy. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1987 |
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|November |
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|More than ten thousand people demonstrate in Brasov. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1987 |
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|December |
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|Husak is replaced by Milos Jakes. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1988 |
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|February 26, |
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|More than seven hundred thousand people protest in Azerbaijan and Armenia |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1988 |
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|May/August |
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|Massive strikes break out across the country; on both occasions, strikers demand restoration of Solidarity. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|February 6, |
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|First “roundtable” meeting takes place between government and Solidarity. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|February 11, |
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|The government approves the creation of independent parties. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|March |
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|More than 75 thousand march in Budapest calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops and free elections. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|March |
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|Human rights activists send an open letter of protest to Ceausescu. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|March |
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|In the first free elections since 1917, scores of Party officials suffer humiliating defeats. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|April 1, |
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|Soviet troops begin to withdraw from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|April 7, |
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|Government agress to relegalize Solidarity and hold partly free elections. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|May 2, |
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|Hungary begins dismantling its portion of the iron curtain along its border with Austria. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|May 8, |
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|Janos Kadar is replaced by Karoly Grosz as general secretary. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|June 4, |
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|Solidarity candidates triumph in Eastern Europe’s freest elections ever held under Communist rule. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|June 16, |
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|Imre Nagy is reburied in a huge anti-Communist rally. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|July |
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|Ceausescu plays host to Warsaw Pact leaders. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|August 24, |
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|Tadeusz Mazowiecki is confirmed as prime minister and forms the first non-Communist government in Eastern Europe since 1948. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|September 10, |
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|Border with Austria is opened to East Germans wishing to leave. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|October 7, |
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|The Communist party dissolves itself and becomes the Socialist party. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|October 7, |
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|Mikhail Gorbachev warns Honecker that “life punishes those who delay.” |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|October 9, |
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|Honecker’s orders for the police to shoot demonstrators are not obeyed; weekly demonstrations continue every Monday in Leipzig. |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|October 18, |
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|Honecker is ousted and is replaced by Egon Krenz. |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|October 23, |
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|Hungary declares itself “independent and legal.” |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 5, |
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|Five hundred thousand demonstrators gather inEast Berlin. |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 7, |
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|The government resigns. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 7, |
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|The government resigns. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 9, |
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|Tne Berlin Wall is opened; thousands of East Germans visit the West. |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 17, |
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|Anti-government demonstration in Wenceslas Square is brutally broken up by police. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 19, |
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|The Civic Forum is created in the Magic Lantern Theater. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 20, |
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|More than two hundred thousand people protest in Prague; demonstrations continue and grow daily. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 24, |
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|Alexander Dubcek returns to Prague; Milos Jakes and the Communist leadership resign. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 27, |
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|The Civic Forum directs a two-hour general strike in support of democracy. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|November 28, |
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|The Communist party promises to hold free elections and to abandon its “leading role.” |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 3, |
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|Egon Krenz. the Pofeburo. and the Central Committee all resign. |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 10, |
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|A new government with a non-Communist majority is formed. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 15, |
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|The first demonstrations take place in Timisoara. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 17, |
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|Ceausescu orders the army and police to shoot demonstrators in Timisoara; thousands are killed. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 21, |
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|Ceausescu addresses a rally in Bucharest but is shouted down by protesters. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 22, |
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|Thousands of people storm government buildings in Bucharest; Ceausescu and his wife escape by helicopter. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 23, |
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|December 23, The National Salvation Front emerges, headed by Ion Iliescu, a former member of the Communist Central Committee. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 25, |
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|Ceausescu and his wife are executed. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1989 |
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|December 29, |
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|Vaclav Havel is elected president. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|January 1, |
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|Introduction of fundamental economic reforms, securing a market system. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|January 13, |
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|Violent ethnic clashes break out in Azerbaijan. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|February 4, |
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|One hundred thousand people demonstrate against the Communist party in Moscow. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|February 7, |
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|Article Six of the Soviet Constitution is eliminated. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|February 24, |
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|The Communists are defeated in Lithuanian elections. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|March 11, |
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|The Timisoara Proclamation is announced. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|March 18, |
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|In East Germany’s first free election, 87 percent of the vote goes to pro-reunification parties. |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|March 18, |
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|Latvia and Estonia favor independence from the Soviet Union; Gorbachev is elected by the Soviet Parliament to a new executive presidency. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|March 25, |
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|Jozsef Antall of the Hungarian Democratic Forum is elected prime minister. |
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|Hungary |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|April 13, |
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|Gorbachev announces economic blockade of Lithuania. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|May 4, |
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|The Latvian Parliament votes for independence, but with an indeterminate transition period. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|June 8-9, |
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|The Civic Forum wins 48 percent of the vote. |
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|Czechoslovakia |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|May 20, |
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|Ion Iliescu of the National Salvation Front is elected president, winning 85 percent of the vote. |
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|Romania |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|May 27, |
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|Local elections sweep away Communist officials throughout the country. |
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|Poland |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|July 2, |
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|Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian republic and Gorbachev’s chief rival, quits the Communist party. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|October 3, |
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|The two Germanys are united after 45 years. |
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|East Germany |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|November 17, |
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|Gorbachev announces that executive power will be wielded by himself and the presidents of the 15 republics. |
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|Soviet Union |
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|- |
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|1990 |
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|December 9, |
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|In Poland’s first free election since 1947, Lech Walesa is elected president, winning 75 percent of the vote. |
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|Poland |
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YEAR | DATE | EVENTS | COUNTRY |
1917 | October | The October Revolution; Vladimir Lenin establishes a Communist government. | Soviet Union |
1922 | Joseph Stalin becomes general secretary of the Communist party. | Soviet Union | |
1945 | February | Poland’s postwar fate is decided at Yalta. | Poland |
1945 | February | At Yalta, the Allies agree to allow the Soviets to retain positions in Eastern Europe. | Soviet Union |
1946 | February | Hungary is declared a republic after the abolition of the monarchy. | Hungary |
1946 | November | A Communist-dominated front takes control. | Romania |
1947 | January | The Communist party gains control. | Poland |
1947 | August | Elections give the Communist-dominated leftist block 46 percent of the vote. | Hungary |
1948 | May | The Communist-dominated National Front wins an electoral victory. | Czechoslovakia |
1948 | June | Soviets begin a blockade of Berlin, and Allies respond with an airlift. | East Germany |
1953 | March 5, | Stalin dies; Nikita Khrushchev succeeds him. | Soviet Union |
1955 | May 14, | The Warsaw Pact is formed. | Soviet Union |
1956 | June | Strikes break out in Poznan; 57 people are killed. | Poland |
1956 | October /
November |
Imre Nagy becomes prime minister; more than twenty thousand people are killed in two waves of Soviet invasions. | Hungary |
1956 | November | Nagy is replaced by Janos Kadar. | Hungary |
1961 | August | The Berlin Wall is erected. | East Germany |
1964 | October | Khrushchev is ousted and replaced as general secretary by Leonid Brezhnev. | Soviet Union |
1965 | July | Nicolae Ceausescu becomes general secretary. | Romania |
1968 | January | The beginning of the Prague Spring. | Czechoslovakia |
1968 | March | Student riots take place in Warsaw. | Poland |
1968 | August 31, | Soviet troops lead a Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. | Czechoslovakia |
1969 | March | Gustav Husak becomes general secretary. | Czechoslovakia |
1970 | December | Riots and strikes occur in Polish coastal cities; more than three hundred are reported killed. | Poland |
1971 | May | Erich Honecker becomes general secretary. | East Germany |
1977 | January | Charter 77 is circulated. | Czechoslovakia |
1977 | August | Miners in the Jiu Valley strike over living standards and pension cuts. | Romania |
1978 | October 16, | Cardinal Karol Wojtyla of Krakow is elected Pope, taking the name John Paul II. | Poland |
1980 | January 15, | Five thousand demonstrators in Prague’s Wenceslas Square commemorate Jan Palach’s suicide in 1969; Vaclav Havel and other dissidents are arrested. | Czechoslovakia |
1980 | August | Eighty thousand workers take over the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk; strikes break out throughout the country. | Poland |
1980 | August 31, | Poland’s Communist government signs agreement with strike committee in Gdansk; Solidarity era begins. | Poland |
1981 | December 13, | Martial law is imposed; Solidarity is banned; thousands are imprisoned. | Poland |
1985 | March 11, | Mikhail Gorbachev is named as general secretary. | Soviet Union |
1986 | March 17, | The Communist party approves “truly revolutionary changes” in the economy. | Soviet Union |
1987 | November | More than ten thousand people demonstrate in Brasov. | Romania |
1987 | December | Husak is replaced by Milos Jakes. | Czechoslovakia |
1988 | February 26, | More than seven hundred thousand people protest in Azerbaijan and Armenia | Soviet Union |
1988 | May/August | Massive strikes break out across the country; on both occasions, strikers demand restoration of Solidarity. | Poland |
1989 | February 6, | First “roundtable” meeting takes place between government and Solidarity. | Poland |
1989 | February 11, | The government approves the creation of independent parties. | Hungary |
1989 | March | More than 75 thousand march in Budapest calling for the withdrawal of Soviet troops and free elections. | Hungary |
1989 | March | Human rights activists send an open letter of protest to Ceausescu. | Romania |
1989 | March | In the first free elections since 1917, scores of Party officials suffer humiliating defeats. | Soviet Union |
1989 | April 1, | Soviet troops begin to withdraw from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany. | Soviet Union |
1989 | April 7, | Government agress to relegalize Solidarity and hold partly free elections. | Poland |
1989 | May 2, | Hungary begins dismantling its portion of the iron curtain along its border with Austria. | Hungary |
1989 | May 8, | Janos Kadar is replaced by Karoly Grosz as general secretary. | Hungary |
1989 | June 4, | Solidarity candidates triumph in Eastern Europe’s freest elections ever held under Communist rule. | Poland |
1989 | June 16, | Imre Nagy is reburied in a huge anti-Communist rally. | Hungary |
1989 | July | Ceausescu plays host to Warsaw Pact leaders. | Romania |
1989 | August 24, | Tadeusz Mazowiecki is confirmed as prime minister and forms the first non-Communist government in Eastern Europe since 1948. | Poland |
1989 | September 10, | Border with Austria is opened to East Germans wishing to leave. | Hungary |
1989 | October 7, | The Communist party dissolves itself and becomes the Socialist party. | Hungary |
1989 | October 7, | Mikhail Gorbachev warns Honecker that “life punishes those who delay.” | East Germany |
1989 | October 9, | Honecker’s orders for the police to shoot demonstrators are not obeyed; weekly demonstrations continue every Monday in Leipzig. | East Germany |
1989 | October 18, | Honecker is ousted and is replaced by Egon Krenz. | East Germany |
1989 | October 23, | Hungary declares itself “independent and legal.” | Hungary |
1989 | November 5, | Five hundred thousand demonstrators gather inEast Berlin. | East Germany |
1989 | November 7, | The government resigns. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | December 7, | The government resigns. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | November 9, | Tne Berlin Wall is opened; thousands of East Germans visit the West. | East Germany |
1989 | November 17, | Anti-government demonstration in Wenceslas Square is brutally broken up by police. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | November 19, | The Civic Forum is created in the Magic Lantern Theater. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | November 20, | More than two hundred thousand people protest in Prague; demonstrations continue and grow daily. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | November 24, | Alexander Dubcek returns to Prague; Milos Jakes and the Communist leadership resign. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | November 27, | The Civic Forum directs a two-hour general strike in support of democracy. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | November 28, | The Communist party promises to hold free elections and to abandon its “leading role.” | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | December 3, | Egon Krenz. the Pofeburo. and the Central Committee all resign. | East Germany |
1989 | December 10, | A new government with a non-Communist majority is formed. | Czechoslovakia |
1989 | December 15, | The first demonstrations take place in Timisoara. | Romania |
1989 | December 17, | Ceausescu orders the army and police to shoot demonstrators in Timisoara; thousands are killed. | Romania |
1989 | December 21, | Ceausescu addresses a rally in Bucharest but is shouted down by protesters. | Romania |
1989 | December 22, | Thousands of people storm government buildings in Bucharest; Ceausescu and his wife escape by helicopter. | Romania |
1989 | December 23, | December 23, The National Salvation Front emerges, headed by Ion Iliescu, a former member of the Communist Central Committee. | Romania |
1989 | December 25, | Ceausescu and his wife are executed. | Romania |
1989 | December 29, | Vaclav Havel is elected president. | Czechoslovakia |
1990 | January 1, | Introduction of fundamental economic reforms, securing a market system. | Poland |
1990 | January 13, | Violent ethnic clashes break out in Azerbaijan. | Soviet Union |
1990 | February 4, | One hundred thousand people demonstrate against the Communist party in Moscow. | Soviet Union |
1990 | February 7, | Article Six of the Soviet Constitution is eliminated. | Soviet Union |
1990 | February 24, | The Communists are defeated in Lithuanian elections. | Soviet Union |
1990 | March 11, | The Timisoara Proclamation is announced. | Romania |
1990 | March 18, | In East Germany’s first free election, 87 percent of the vote goes to pro-reunification parties. | East Germany |
1990 | March 18, | Latvia and Estonia favor independence from the Soviet Union; Gorbachev is elected by the Soviet Parliament to a new executive presidency. | Soviet Union |
1990 | March 25, | Jozsef Antall of the Hungarian Democratic Forum is elected prime minister. | Hungary |
1990 | April 13, | Gorbachev announces economic blockade of Lithuania. | Soviet Union |
1990 | May 4, | The Latvian Parliament votes for independence, but with an indeterminate transition period. | Soviet Union |
1990 | June 8-9, | The Civic Forum wins 48 percent of the vote. | Czechoslovakia |
1990 | May 20, | Ion Iliescu of the National Salvation Front is elected president, winning 85 percent of the vote. | Romania |
1990 | May 27, | Local elections sweep away Communist officials throughout the country. | Poland |
1990 | July 2, | Boris Yeltsin, leader of the Russian republic and Gorbachev’s chief rival, quits the Communist party. | Soviet Union |
1990 | October 3, | The two Germanys are united after 45 years. | East Germany |
1990 | November 17, | Gorbachev announces that executive power will be wielded by himself and the presidents of the 15 republics. | Soviet Union |
1990 | December 9, | In Poland’s first free election since 1947, Lech Walesa is elected president, winning 75 percent of the vote. | Poland |