Major events in the struggle for world freedom


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1939-09 Germany liberation begins

1941-12 Japan liberation begins

1949-04 NATO formed

1950-06 South Korea protected from North Korean invasion

1956-11 Hungarian revolution put down by USSR

1965-03 US ground troops attempt to protect South Vietnam from communism

1968-08 Czechoslovakia revolution put down by USSR

1983-10 Grenada invaded

1986-02 Philippines "people power/EDSA" revolution
1986-02 Gorbachev introduced glasnost

1987-12 South Korea's first free presidential election

1989-06 Tiananmen Square massacre in China challenged Chinese communism
1989-06 Polish partly-free elections
1989-11 Berlin Wall collapsed
1989-12 US put down Philippines military coup
1989-12 Panama invaded
1989-12 Czechoslovakia "velvet revolution"
1989-12 Romanian revolution

1990-05 Hungarian freedom via elections
1990-06 Bulgarian freedom via elections
1990-10 German reunification
1990-12 Polish freedom

1991-02 Desert Storm freed Kuwait
1991-03 Albanian free elections
1991-06 Soviet troops vacated Hungary
1991-06 Slovenia independent of Yugoslavia
1991-06 Croatia independent of Yugoslavia
1991-07 Warsaw Pact dissolved
1991-09 Macedonia independent of Yugoslavia
1991-12 USSR disintegrated

1992-03 Bosnia independent of Yugoslavia

1994-08 Most Russian troops withdrawn from Baltics
1994-09 US invades Haiti to restore democracy

1996-03 Taiwan's first free presidential elections

1999-03 Czech, Hungary, Poland joined NATO
1999-03 NATO liberates Kosovo
1999-10 Last Russian troops left Latvia after dismantling radar station

2000-10 Milosevic (Yugoslavia) overthrown

2001-10 Afghanistan invaded

2003-03 Iraq invaded

2004-02 Haitian revolution restores democratic governance
2004-03 Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia join NATO

2007-01 Vietnam joins WTO as Vietnam War finally won by capitalists

2009-04 Albania, Croatia join NATO

2011-01 Tunisian revolution
2011-03 Libya invaded

2011-12 US forces withdraw from Iraq, Iraqis manage on their own

2014-12 US forces end combat role in Afghanistan, Afghans manage on their own