Cold War

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  • 1961 Berlin Wall is constructed

    1961 Berlin Wall is constructed
    Separating communist East Germany and East Berlin from democratic West Germany and West Berlin.

  • 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis

    1962 Cuban Missile Crisis
    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.

  • 1965 troops to Vietnam

    1965 troops to Vietnam
    US spends 150000 troops to Vietnam to aid the South Vietnamese and combat the North Vietnamese Communists

  • 1968 Prague spring

    1968 Prague spring
    Warsaw Pact forces enter Czechoslovakia to end “Prague Spring”

  • 1972 SALTI

    1972 SALTI
    Nixon and Brezhnev sign SALT I treaty