Foreign Policy of 1950s/1960s by

Cuban Missile Crisis

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:33:17 UTC

October 1962

Bay of Pigs invasion

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:33:25 UTC

April 1961

Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:34:08 UTC

November 1963

Berlin Wall erected

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:34:25 UTC

August 1961

Yuri Gagarin's orbit (Soviet cosmonaut)

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:35:19 UTC

April 1961

JFK's inauguration

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:35:40 UTC

January 1961

Suez Canal Crisis

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:36:46 UTC

October-November 1956 (though Nasser's nationalization occurred in July 1956)

Cuban Revolution ends: Fidel Castro becomes Cuban PM

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:38:58 UTC

January 1959

Battle of Dien Bien Phu; French withdraw from Vietnam; Geneva Conference divides Vietnam into two as temporary measure

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:39:48 UTC

March-July 1954

Operation Ajax: Mossadeq overthrown and replaced by Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:40:35 UTC

August 1953

Operation PBSuccess: Guatemalan Colonel Arbenz replaced by military dictator Carlos Castillo Armas

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:41:42 UTC

June 1954

Hungarian Revolution (and subsequent Soviet suppression)

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:44:55 UTC

October-November 1956

Khrushchev becomes Secretary of USSR Communist Party

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:45:50 UTC

September 1953

Khrushchev's Tour of America

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:46:20 UTC

September 1959

U-2 Incident

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:47:31 UTC

May 1960

Nuclear Test Ban Treaty

jlim63_1 — 2022-04-21 00:55:09 UTC

October 1963

Sputnik

2023-04-11 02:49:43 UTC

October 1957

Kennedy announces "Alliance for Progress" and establishes Peace Corps

jlim63_1 — 2023-04-12 23:25:09 UTC

March 1961

Nixon/Khruschev "Kitchen Debate" in Moscow

2026-04-13 12:29:29 UTC

July 1959