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Separating communist East Germany and East Berlin from democratic West Germany and West Berlin.
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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.
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US spends 150000 troops to Vietnam to aid the South Vietnamese and combat the North Vietnamese Communists
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Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end “Prague Spring”
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Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I treaty
