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1950 West Germany decides to fire all its communist officials
1951 Ilse Koch, The "Witch of Buchenwald," wife of the Commandant of the Buchenwald concentration camp, is sentenced to life imprisonment in a court in West Germany.
1951 West Germany joins UNESCO
1952 West Germany has 8 million refugees inside its borders.
1952 West Germany and Japan form diplomatic relations.
1952 Marshall Aid ends.
, West Germany, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands form the European Coal and Steel community, the foundation organisation what will become the European Union.]]
1952 West Germany joins IMF.
1952 West Germany joins World Bank.
1952 Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg - Germany will pay 3 billion Deutsche Marks.
1953 USA gives West Germany 382 ships it captured during World War Two
1953 First German prisoners of war return from Soviet Union to West Germany
1954 West Germany joins NATO
1955 West Germany becomes a sovereign state.
1956 West Germany bans Communist Party of Germany
1957 Saarland joins West Germany. IRA attack on Brookeborough police barracks leads to the deaths of Seán South and Fergal O'Hanlon.
1960 May 4 — West German refugee minister Theodor Oberländer is fired because of his Nazi past.
1962 In West Germany, a coalition government of Christian Democrats, Christian Socialists, and Free Democrats is formed.
1965 The West German parliament extends the statute of limitations on Nazi war crimes.
1965 West Germany and Israel establish diplomatic relations.
1965 A West German court of appeals condemns the behavior of ex-defense minister Franz Joseph Strauss during the Spiegel scandal.
1965 Ludwig Erhard is elected as Chancellor in West Germany.
1966 West Germany procures some 2,600 political prisoners from East Germany.
1967 West Germany and Romania establish diplomatic relations.
1967 Moscow forbids its satellite states to form diplomatic relations with West Germany.
1967 West Germany receives 36 East German prisoners it has "purchased" through the border posts of Herleshausen and Wartha.
1969 Willy Brandt becomes Chancellor of West Germany.
1972 A RAF bomb explodes in the Campbell Barracks of the U.S. Army Supreme European Command in Heidelberg, West Germany. Three U.S. soldiers Clyde Bonner, Ronald Woodard and Charles Peck are killed.
1972 East Germany and West Germany recognize each other.
1974 A bomb explodes in Italicus Expressen train between Italy and West Germany. Italian neo-fascist terrorists take responsibility.
1974 Members of the Movement 2 June try to kidnap Günter von Drenkmann, the president of West Germany's Superior Court of Justice, at his home, but he is fatally shot during the attempt.
1975 The Movement 2 June kidnaps West German politician Peter Lorenz. He is released on March 4 after most of the kidnappers' demands are met.
1976 The trial against jailed members of the Red Army Faction begins in Stuttgart, West Germany.
1977 Left-wing German terrorists Susanne Albrecht, Brigitte Mohnhaupt and a third person assassinate Jürgen Ponto, chairman of the Dresdner Bank in Oberursel, West Germany.
1977 German Autumn: Hanns-Martin Schleyer, President of the Employers Association, is kidnapped in Cologne, West Germany. The kidnappers kill three escorting police officers and his chauffeur. They demand the release of Red Army Faction prisoners.
1978 Ethiopia declares the ambassador of West Germany Persona non grata.
1983 ''Stern'' magazine in West Germany announces it has the Hitler Diaries.
1983 In Bonn, West Germany, people demonstrate for nuclear disarmament.
1989 Cold War: East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall, allowing its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time in decades (the next day celebrating Germans began to tear the wall down).
1990 West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1.
1990 East Germany and West Germany reunify into a single Germany.
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