Cold War Timeline

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  • peace corps

    sent American colunteers around the world on the "mission of freedom" to assist developing countries

  • bay of pigs invasion

    a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles attacked Cuba in the Bay of Pigs.
    U.S. and Cuba relationship is tense.
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    Cuba missile crisis

    U.S. intelligence discovered that Soviets were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba.
    Soviet Union and U.S. relationship is tense.

  • normalize relations with China

    President Nixon made the trip to China.
    U.S. and China relationship is normalized.

  • detente with Soviet Union

    President Nixon made a trip to Soviet Union.
    Soviet Union and U.S. relationship is detented