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Period: 1960 BCE to 1975 BCE
Cold War in 1960 to 1970s
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Cuba: Bay of Pigs Invasion
In April of 1961 the United States government sponsored an attempt by Cuban exiles to assault Cuba and overthrow Fidel Castro and the communist government he led. The mission failed because of the selection of a poor landing site, inability to disable the Cuban Air Force and overestimation of the Cuban people’s willingness to support a strike against Castro. -
Cuba Missile Crisis
In October of 1962, Americans found Soviet nuclear missile inatallation in Cuba and it threathend the major city in the Uited States. It showed the Soviet's milatary power and made the the world in fear of missile wars. And the relathionship between America and Soviet became in tension. http://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/cuban-missile-crisis -
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
This joint resolution of Congress (H.J. RES 1145) dated August 7, 1964, gave President Lyndon Johnson authority to increase U.S. involvement in the war between North and South Vietnam.
As a result, President Johnson, and later President Nixon, relied on the resolution as the legal basis for their military policies in Vietnam. http://www.classbrain.com/artteenst/publish/article_105.shtml -
Nixon Visited China in 1972
In February 1972 trip to China, Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger focus on the February 21 meeting with Mao Zedong as well as the talks with Zhou Enlai on the Vietnam War, Taiwan, and the Shanghai Communique.
Trade thrived between the United State and China and American tourists began to visit China. America began to established well relathions ship with China. http://nsarchive.gwu.edu/NSAEBB/NSAEBB106/index.htm -
Strategic Arms with Limitation Treaty
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. SALT I is considered the crowning achievement of the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of détente. https://history.state.gov/milestones/1969-1976/salt
