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| 1961 |
| | | The East German government erects the Berlin Wall to prevent an exodus of its citizens | |
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| 1962 |
| | | Frelimo emerges as a Marxist guerrilla group dedicated to winning independence for Mozambique | |
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| 1962 |
| | | US intelligence reveals nuclear missile bases under construction in Cuba, causing an international crisis | |
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| 1962 |
| | | President Kennedy sends the US navy to prevent delivery of Soviet missiles to Cuba | |
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| 1962 |
| | | A deal between President Kennedy and Soviet premier Khrushchev defuses the Cuban missile crisis | |
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| 1963 |
| | | British diplomat Kim Philby defects to the USSR and is discovered to have been a Soviet spy | |
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| 1963 |
| | | Saloth Sar, changing his name to Pol Pot, begins to build up the Cambodian Communist party and Khmer Rouge | |
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| 1964 |
| | | Nikita Khrushchev is forced from office as Soviet leader by a conservative faction that includes Leonid Brezhnev | |
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| 1964 |
| | | The USSR enters a brief period of coalition leadership by Alexei Kosygin as prime minister and Leonid Brezhnev as Party First Secretary | |
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| 1966 |
| | | The Soviet spacecraft Luna 10 orbits the moon and broadcasts the Internationale to the 23rd Congress of the Communist Party | |
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