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The US deploys Jupiter missiles in Italy and Turkey. Because of these bases, the US can launch a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union with ease. This nuclear strike would deal substantial damage.
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The Soviet Union makes history, sending the first man ever into space, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin.
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John F. Kennedy appears on television and addresses the American people. Kennedy announces a naval blockade of Cuba; he encourages the people to remain in place until the removal of Soviet ballistic missiles there.
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Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. Soviet propaganda hails this as evidence of gender equality in the USSR.
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Nikita Khrushchev, the Soviet Union president is removed from office and is replaced by Leonid Brezhnev, a former land surveyor.
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The Vietnam war begins and the US send 150,000 troops to Vietnam. There is no correlation between America and the Soviet Union being in Vietnam.
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American B-52s bomb North Vietnam. The Vietnamese do not surrender.
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Presidents Alexei Kosygin (Soviet) and Lyndon Johnson (American) meet in Glassboro, New Jersey for a meeting. No major agreements are made.
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Vietnamese conduct a series of surprise attacks from the North Vietnamese to the South Vietnamese. It ends as a strategic North Vietnamese victory, a major turning point in the war.
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First flight to the moon is successful; the US becomes the first country to ever set foot on the moon. The mission was known as Apollo 11.
