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Cold War

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  • East Germany builds Berlin Wall

    East Germany builds Berlin Wall
    The Berlin Wall is built by the Soviets following the breakdown in talks to decide the future of Germany.

  • Cuban Missile Crisis

    Cuban Missile Crisis
    Cuban Missile Crisis: The Soviets have secretly been installing military bases, including nuclear weapons, on Cuba, some 90 miles from the US mainland. Kennedy orders a "quarantine" (a naval blockade) of the island that intensifies the crisis and brings the US and the USSR to the brink of nuclear war. In the end, both sides reach a compromise.

  • China explodes its first atomic bomb

    China explodes its first atomic bomb
    China tests its first atomic bomb. The test makes China the world's fifth nuclear power.

  • U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic.

    U.S. sends troops to the Dominican Republic.
    US forces invade the Dominican Republic to prevent a communist takeover like the one that occurred in Cuba.

  • Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising

    Soviet Red Army crushes Czech Uprising
    Prague Spring Reforms in Communist Czechoslovakia result in Warsaw Pact for Soviet Red Army to crush Czechoslovakian revolt!!