Chronology of Western Colonialism - 1963 To The Fall of The Berlin Wall

1963 To The Fall of The Berlin Wall

  • 1963: Assassination of Sylvanus Olympio on January 13, first president of Togo; he is replaced by Gnassingbé Eyadéma, who ruled over Togo until his death in 2005
  • 1965-1973: Vietnam War
  • 1965: Assassination of Mehdi Ben Barka, leader of the UNPF and of the Tricontinental Conference
  • 1965: Joseph Mobutu becomes the dictator of the Democratic Republic of Congo until his overthrow in 1997 by Laurent-Désiré Kabila
  • 1967: Assassination of Che Guevara in Bolivia.
  • 1969: Assassination of Eduardo Mondlane, leader of the FRELIMO
  • 1970s: Independence of the former Portuguese colonies, following the April 25, 1974 Carnation Revolution and the Portuguese Colonial War
  • 1971: Independence of Bangladesh following the war with Pakistan
  • 1971: Publication of Eduardo Galeano's Open Veins of Latin America
  • 1971: Publication of Gustavo Gutiérrez's A Theology of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation
  • 1973: Assassination of Amilcar Cabral, leader of the African Party for the Independence of Guinea and Cape Verde (PAIGC) on January 20
  • 1973: The PAIGC proclaims the independence of Guinea-Bissau on September 24
  • 1975: Portugal recognizes Mozambique's independence on June 25 and Angola on November 11
  • November 1975: Green March during which Morocco annexes Western Sahara, formerly part of Spanish Morocco.
  • 1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and start of the "Second Cold War"
  • 1980: The UN reaches 154 member states
  • 1980: Assassination of Óscar Romero, prelate archbishop of San Salvador and proponent of the Liberation theology, on March 24
  • 1982: Latin American debt crisis (in particular in Mexico, Brazil and Argentina)
  • 1983: Invasion of Grenada
  • 1984: Bhopal disaster in India
  • 1988: Assassination of Dulcie September, member of the African National Congress
  • 1989: Operation Just Cause against Manuel Noriega
  • 1990: Independence of Namibia, the UN reaches 159 states.

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