Gold's official role in the international monetary …
Years: 1972 - 1983
Gold's official role in the international monetary system ends by the 1970s, but the metal remains a highly regarded reserve asset: approximately forty-five percent of all the world's gold is held by governments and central banks for this purpose.
All nations continue to accept gold as a medium of international payment.
Cyprus is formally divided, with ethnic Turks controlling the island’s northeastern third and ethnic Greeks controlling the rest.
Greece forms a socialist government.
Nationalistic communist governments, increasingly independent of communist party lines, form in Albania, Yugoslavia, Romania, and Bulgaria.
Smallpox is officially eradicated from the globe in October 1979.
Groups
- Greece, Kingdom of
- Yugoslavia, Socialist Federal Republic of
- Albania, People's Republic of
- Bulgaria, Republic of
- Romanian People's Republic
- Greece (Hellenic Republic)
- Albania, People's Socialist Republic of
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