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| 1956 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev denounces Stalin, dead now for three years, at a party congress in the USSR | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Students are fired on in Budapest when protesting against repressive Communist policies | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Confronted by a popular uprising, Communist leaders in Hungary bring back the reformist prime minister Imre Nagy | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invade Hungary to end the uprising and arrest Imre Nagy | |
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| 1956 |
| | | The Kremlin imposes János Kádár on Hungary as head of a new government | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Communist activist Fidel Castro returns from Mexico to Cuba to organize guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime | |
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| 1957 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev's position in the Soviet Communist party is secure after the failure of a plot to remove him | |
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| 1958 |
| | | The new hard-line Hungarian government headed by János Kádár tries and executes Imre Nagy | |
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| 1958 |
| | | Dictator Fulgencio Batista flees from Cuba, leaving Havana open to Fidel Castro and his victorious guerrillas | |
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| 1959 |
| | | Fidel Castro begins more than four decades of authoritarian rule in Cuba | |
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