1960 - 1972

• Berlin Wall 1961

  • USSR sealed off Berlin after mass immigration to the west
  • 18 hour standoff at Checkpoint Charlie
  • 1963, Kennedy's "ich ein berliner" speech
• Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

  • Feidel Castro turns communist
  • 1961, Bay of Pigs was an attempted revolt by the US
  • Kennedy finds missiles in Cuba and holds a blockade
• Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

  • USSR missiles in Cuba are removed, whilst USA missiles in Turkey are removed.
  • hotline installed between the White House and the Kremlin
  • SALT 1 and SALT 2
• Prague Springs 1968

  • Dubcek announced that he wanted "socialism with a human face", and relaxed communist rule, whilst remaining in the Warsaw Pact.
  • Stricter communist rules were put in place by Brezhnev, created the Brezhnev Doctrine.
• Fall of the Berlin Wall 1989