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Cold War Timeline

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  • Kennedy won election

    John F. Kennedy won a close presidential election in 1960, defeating Richard M.Nixon

  • The United States invaded Cuba's Bay of pigs

    The invasion, conceived by the CIA to overthrow Fidel Castro, involved Cuban exiles who had fled Castro's rule and settled in the United States.

  • West Berlin

    In 1961 Khrushchev insisted the United States end its military presence in west Berlin. Kennedy refused

  • cuban missile crisis

    1962 conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union resulting from Soviet installation of nuclear missiles in Cuba.

  • Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

    As a result of the crisis the United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and thirty-six other countries signed the first Nuclear Test Ban Treaty