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1961 Berlin Wall is constructed
Separating communist East Germany and East Berlin from democratic West Germany and West Berlin. -
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
A U.S. spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet Union nuclear missile base in Cuba. Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missile. -
1965 troops to Vietnam
US spends 150000 troops to Vietnam to aid the South Vietnamese and combat the North Vietnamese Communists -
1968 Prague spring
Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end “Prague Spring” -
1972 SALTI
Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I treaty