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Period: to
Cold War 1960 - 1970
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Lohn F. Kennedy elected President
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
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Kennedy requests 25% spending increase for military
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Construction of Beerlin Well begins
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U.S. involvement in Vietnam increase
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Cuban Missile Crisis
October 14 - 28 -
President Kennedy assassinated in Dallas, Texas
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Announcement of dispatching of 150,000 U.S. troops to Vietnam
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Soviet troops crush Czechoslovakian revolt - Prague Spring
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President Nixon extends Vietnam War to Cambodia