| 1919 |
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Poland recognized as independent state after First World War |
| 1941 |
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Josip Broz Tito leads coommunist revolution in Yugoslavia |
| 1945 |
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Death of King Zog of Albania |
| 1945 |
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Death of Bela Bartok (Hungarian composer) |
| 1947 |
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"Iron Curtain" effectively drawn around Soviet-controlled countries |
| 1948 |
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Enver Hoxha leads Albania as independent Stalinist state |
| 1949 |
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Comecon established to coordinate Soviet block economies |
| 1955 |
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Warsaw Pact signed by USSR, Poland, Romania, Hungary,
Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Albania |
| 1956 |
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Hungarian revolt brutally suppressed by Soviets |
| 1961 |
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Berlin Wall built between East and West Germany |
| 1968 |
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Albania withdraws from Warsaw Pact for ideological reasons |
| 1968 |
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Prague Spring uprising in Czechoslovakia crushed by Soviets |
| 1972 |
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Treaty recognizes East and West Germany as sovereign states |
| 1980 |
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Gdansk Shipyard Strike in Poland - Lech Walesa forms Solidarity |
| 1980 |
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Tito dies - Yugoslavia's six states begin to argue |
| 1980 |
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Relations between East and West Germany deteriorate |
| 1982 |
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Martial law in Poland ended by Solidarity action |
| 1985 |
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Enver Hoxha dies - Albania gradually relaxes foreign relations |
| 1985 |
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Pro-Solidarity Father Jerzy Popieluzsko assassinated in Poland |
| 1989 |
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Overthrow of communist rule in Poland, Hungary, East Germany and Bulgaria |
| 1989 |
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Non-violent Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia |
| 1989 |
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Violent overthrow of Ceausescu's communist regime in Romania |
| 1989 |
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Berlin Wall demolished |
| 1990 |
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East and West Germany unite as Federal Republic of Germany |
| 1991 |
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Official dissolution of Warsaw Pact |
| 1992 |
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Civil war in Bosnia-Herzegovina starts |
| 1995 |
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End of war in Bosnia-Herzegovina |
