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| 1975 |
| | | In Angola the USA and USSR fund rival guerrilla groups, MPLA and UNITA | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Cuban troops, sent by Castro to Angola, clash with South African forces attempting to combat communism | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Electrician Lech Walesa emerges as the leader of a strike in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland | |
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| 1980 |
| | | A trade union, Solidarnośc (Solidarity), is formed by strikers in the Gdansk shipyard in Poland | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Lech Walesa is elected chairman of the newly formed Polish trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity) | |
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| 1981 |
| | | The Kremlin appoints a general, Wojciech Jaruzelski, as prime minister of Poland | |
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| 1981 |
| | | Polish prime minister Wojciech Jaruzelski imposes martial law and suspends Solidarnośc (Solidarity) | |
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| 1982 |
| | | The trade union movement Solidarnośc (Solidarity) is declared illegal by the Polish government | |
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| 1984 |
| | | The CIA covertly arranges for mines to be laid in Nicaragua's harbours | |
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| 1985 |
| | | New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev brings glasnost ('openness') and perestroika ('reform') to the USSR | |
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