Here is a sample chronology. Not all the entries have complete information, but the entry for Khrushchev is a good example of the kind of information that should be included.
- At the Potsdam Conference in the summer of 1945 leaders of the victorious allied powers decided upon the division of Germany. That decision meant that Germany would become the center of East-West rivalry in the following years. Critics of the conference proceedings have long argued that the absence of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill allowed Stalin to dominate the proceedings and ensure that communist regimes became firmly entrenched in Eastern Europe.
- Korean War
- Stalin's Death
- Suez Crisis
- U-2 Incident
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- The removal of Nikita Khrushchev from his position as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in October 1964 was an important indicator of the major changes that had occurred in the U.S.S.R since the death of Stalin in 1953. For the first time, there had been a peaceful transfer of power (although in a far from democratic manner), and the new regime, under the control of Leonid Brezhnev, sought to solidify the power of the communist bureaucracy.
- Miracle Mets win the world series in 1969.
- Detente
- ABM Treaty
- Angola
- Afghanistan
- Revolution in Iran
- Mets win another world series in 1986.
- Second Persian Gulf War