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| 1956 |
| | Confronted by a popular uprising, Communist leaders in Hungary bring back the reformist prime minister Imre Nagy | |
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| 1956 |
| | Russian and Warsaw Pact troops invade Hungary to end the uprising and arrest Imre Nagy | |
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| 1956 |
| | The Kremlin imposes János Kádár on Hungary as head of a new government | |
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| 1956 |
| | Communist activist Fidel Castro returns from Mexico to Cuba to organize guerrilla warfare against the Batista regime | |
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| 1957 |
| | Nikita Khrushchev's position in the Soviet Communist party is secure after the failure of a plot to remove him | |
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| 1958 |
| | The new hard-line Hungarian government headed by János Kádár tries and executes Imre Nagy | |
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| 1958 |
| | Dictator Fulgencio Batista flees from Cuba, leaving Havana open to Fidel Castro and his victorious guerrillas | |
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| 1959 |
| | Fidel Castro begins more than four decades of authoritarian rule in Cuba | |
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| 1959 |
| | Vice-president Richard Nixon engages in a 'kitchen debate' with Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev at a US exhibition in Moscow | |
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| 1960 |
| | The Vietcong, or NLF, is formed as a guerrilla force to liberate South Vietnam from the US-backed government | |
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