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| 1968 |
| | | Soviet and Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the Prague Spring | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Reformist Czech leader Alexander Dubcek is arrested and flown to Moscow | |
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| 1968 |
| | | Harvard academic Henry Kissinger is selected by President Nixon as his national security adviser | |
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| 1969 |
| | | Moscow imposes Gustav Husak as first secretary of the Czechoslovak Communist Party, with the brief to reverse Dubcek's reforms | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Salvador Allende, heading a Socialist and Marxist coalition, is elected president in Chile | |
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| 1970 |
| | | Norodom Sihanouk is removed from power in Cambodia in a US-supported coup led by General Lon Nol | |
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| 1971 |
| | | With support from Moscow, Erich Honecker takes Walter Ulbricht's place as leader of East Germany | |
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| 1973 |
| | | President Salvador Allende appoints Augusto Pinochet commander-in-chief of the Chilean army and brings him into the cabinet | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Chilean president Salvador Allende dies in the Chilean capital, Santiago, in a military coup led by Augusto Pinochet | |
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| 1974 |
| | | Augusto Pinochet takes sole power in Chile, at the head of a junta which governs with extreme brutality | |
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