1971

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1971, the so-called Ostpolitik (four-power agreement on Berlin), the Vietnam War and changes in the leadership of the GDR determine the world events.

Events

Politics and world affairs

January
1 January: Rudolf Gnägi becomes Swiss President
1 January: Ban on cigarette advertising on United States television
January 2: Cigarette advertising is now also banned on radio in the USA.
January 7: During the Vietnam War, a plane takes off for the last time for a spray operation with the defoliant Agent Orange.
January 25: While President Milton Obote is not in the country, Army Chief Idi Amin takes power in Uganda with a bloodless coup.
January 25: In India, the northern state of Himachal Pradesh emerges from a previously existing Union Territory.

February
February 2: The Ramsar Convention on Wetlands comes into being, one of the first international conventions on environmental protection.
7 February: Introduction of active and passive voting rights for women in Switzerland by men’s referendum
February 8: Federal Defence Minister Helmut Schmidt liberalizes wearing long hair in the German Bundeswehr with the hairnet decree.
February 8: South Vietnamese ground troops launch Operation Lam Son 719 in the Vietnam War. By invading neighbouring Laos, they want to cripple the supply routes of the Ho Chi Minh Trail and politically force North Vietnam to the negotiating table.
February 11: The Seabed Treaty will be signed in Washington D.C., London and Moscow. The negotiated agreement prohibits the stationing of nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction at seabed. It shall take effect on the 18th day following the date of the ratifications. In force in May 1972.
12 February: Framework agreement on development aid between the Federal Republic of Germany and Rwanda
February 13: The discovery of a submachine gun at a police traffic control in Bad Godesberg leads to the discovery of the military sports group Hengst.
21 February: In Vienna, the Convention on Psychotropic Substances is concluded, an international agreement aimed at reducing private drug use and regulating its use for scientific and medical purposes.

March
March 7: The TV show The Show with the Mouse is broadcast for the first time.
March 12: The military coup under the leadership of General Tagmac and Nihat Erim in Turkey. Left parties and organizations are banned. Several thousand people are arrested and imprisoned
14 March: Berlin: In the elections to the Berlin House of Representatives, the SPD can narrowly maintain its absolute majority
18 March: Double Taxation Agreement between the Federal Republic of Germany and Iceland

March 26: Independence of Bangladesh
30 March: As the first environmental protection law of the social-liberal coalition in the Federal Republic of Germany, the law against aircraft noise rec