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Paris East/ West Talks
On May 26, 1960, the shootdown of a U.S. spy plane by the Soviets caused a diplomatic storm, which made East-West relations tense, interrupted the four-nation summit, aggravated the intraday disarmament conference, and provoked some threatening accusations against the United Nations.
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Bay of Pigs Invasion
On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. However, disaster was avoided when the U.S. agreed to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev’s offer to remove the Cuban missiles in exchange for the U.S. promising not to invade Cuba.
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USSR
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Vietnam War
On March 2, 1965, U.S. President Johnson approved Operation Rolling Thunder to bomb North Vietnam on a large scale. On March 8, 3500 US Marines landed in Danang, Vietnam, and the Vietnam War officially broke out. In June, the U.S. Army began direct combat with the Vietnamese People's Army.
