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Talks between Nikita Khrushchev and Dwight Eisenhower concerning the fate of Germany broke down when a USA U2 spy plane was shot down over Russian airspace.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space.
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A US spy plane reported sighting the construction of a Soviet nuclear missile base in Cuba. President Kennedy set up a naval blockade and demanded the removal of the missiles. War was averted when the Russians agreed on 28th October to remove the weapons. The United States agreed not to invade Cuba.
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US launched Apollo 8 – first manned orbit of the Moon.
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US Apollo 11 landed on the Moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the Moon.
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President Richard Nixon ordered US troops to go to Cambodia.
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The Four Power Agreement made between Russia, USA, Britain and France reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin.
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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR.
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Joint space venture between USA and USSR heralded as an end to the ‘Space Race’
