1990 Event 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists 1984 Death Leamon Hunt, U.S. director-General in Sinai, killed by communists 1982 Event Spain's socialists win/communists lose elections 1982 Event Dutch Internal minister Mr. M Red assigns BVD to spy on communists 1981 Event French government of Mauroy forms, with 4 communists 1981 Event Socialists/communists win French parliamentary election 1977 Event Communists/socialists win French municipal elections 1975 Event Communists take over Laos 1965 Event Mass arrests of communists in Indonesia 1959 Event Vatican edict forbids Roman Catholics for voting for communists 1956 Event Poujadists/communists win French parliamentary elections 1954 Event SE Asia Treaty Org (SEATO) forms to stop communists in Asia 1953 Event Eisenhower criticizes McCarthy for saying communists are in Rep party 1952 Event Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin 1951 Event Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing 1951 Event Belgium refuses to allow communists to make speeches on radio 1950 Event Massive arrests of communists in France 1950 Event President Truman denies there are communists in U.S. government 1950 Event Senator Joseph McCarthy charges State Department infested with 205 communists 1949 Event Chinese Communists captured Chungking 1949 Event British warship HMS Amethyst escape down Yangtze River, having been refused a safe passage by Chinese Communists after 3-month standoff 1949 Event Mass arrests of communists in India 1948 Event Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier 1947 Event King Michael of Romania, forced by communists abdicates his throne 1947 Event Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists 1947 Event Communists grab power in Hungary 1947 Event Aleide de Gasperi forms Italian government of christian-dems and communists 1946 Event Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election 1946 Event KVP Labor/Communists win 1st post-WW2 Dutch parliamentary elections 1944 Event De Gaulle forms new regime in exile, with communists 1943 Event SS Police in Amsterdam sentence for 12 resistance fighter to death (Jewish, communists, homosexuality) at the census bureau 1940 Event 21 "not neutral" nazis and communists arrested in Netherlands 1936 Event Franklin D. Roosevelt gives FBI authority to pursuit fascists and communists 1936 Event Spanish socialists/communists/anarchists form Unidad Popular 1933 Event Japan begins persecution of communists 1933 Event 5th "extermination campaign" against communists in Nanjing China 1933 Event Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov and Vassili arrested in Berlin 1933 Event Nazis set fire to German parliament building, Reichstag, blame it on Communists 1933 Event Catholic newspaper Germania warns against nazis/communists 1927 Event Bloody battles between communists and nazis in Berlin 1926 Event Chiang Kai-shek replaces communists in Guomindang China 1924 Event German election (Social Democrats win/Nazis and Communists lose) 1924 Event British Labour government of MacDonald falls to Communists 1924 Event German Republic election fascists and communists win 1923 Event Mass arrests of socialists and communists in Italy
