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| 1975 |
| | | The MPLA, controlling the capital but not the country, declares itself the government of newly independent Angola | |
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| 1975 |
| | | UNITA and the FNLA join forces to set up a rival Angolan government at Huambo, in the south of the country | |
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| 1975 |
| | | The South Vietnamese capital, Saigon, is taken by North Vietnamese forces | |
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| 1975 |
| | | South Vietnam surrenders, as President Duong Van Minh broadcasts an order to all South Viernames forces to lay down their arms | |
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| 1975 |
| | | Yakubu Gowon, who united Nigeria after the Biafran war, is thrown out in a military coup | |
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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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| 1976 |
| | | A guerrilla movement, with Rhodesian backing, launches a long civil war against Frelimo in Mozambique | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Soviet troops invade Afghanistan to suppress anti-communist anarchy | |
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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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