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36 Cards in this Set
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U-2 Shot Down
Krushchev ruins Paris Summit |
May 1960
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Kennedy wins presidency
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November 1960
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Krushchev bullies Kennedy at Vienna summit
Bay of Pigs Fiasco |
1961
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Berlin Wall goes up
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Aug 1961
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Cuban Missle Crisis
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October 1962
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Limited Test Ban Treaty signed
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1963
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Diem and Kennedy assassinated; LBJ becomes president
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November 1963
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Gulf of Tonkin incident and Resolution
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August 1964
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Khrushchev falls from power; Brezhnev takes over
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October 1964
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LBJ, running on peace platform, wins presidency over Goldwater
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November 1964
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First Ground troops in S. Vietnam
Start of Operation Rolling Thunder |
1965
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Major troop buildup in S. Vietnam to 1/2 million by 1968
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1966-67
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TET Offensive
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January 1968
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Robert Kennedy dies
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June 1968
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Nixon elected president
Detente gains momentum |
November 1968
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USSR invades Czech -- ends Prague Spring
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August 1968
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Start of Vietnamization
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1969
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Invasion of Cambodia
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April 1970
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Red China joins UN
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April 1972
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Peace Accords signed in Paris
Last US troops leave SVN |
1973
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Yom Kippur War -- US-USSR stand off
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October 1973
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Nixon resigns -- Ford becomes president
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August 1974
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Cambodia and South Vietnam fall to the communists
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April 1975
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Mao dies
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1976
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Carter elected president -- detente continues
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November 1976
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US recognizes Red China
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1978
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Soviets invade Afghanistan -- detente ends
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1979
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US boycotts Moscow Olympics
Reagan elected president |
1980
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Brezhnev dies
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1982
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Interm rulers in USSR
Afghan war continues |
1982-85
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Gorbachev comes to power
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1985
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Chernobyl reactor burns
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April 1986
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Berlin Wall falls
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November 1989
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Iraq invades Kuwait -- US with Soviet approval mounts coalition
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August 1990
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Gulf War
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1991
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USSR dies on Christmas Day
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December 1991
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