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> The East Germans put up the Berlin Wall, 1961.

> Sino-Soviet split revealed, 1961.

> Cuban missile crisis, 1962.

> First Chinese nuclear explosion, 1964.

> Start of U.S. buildup in Viet Nam, 1965.

> Mao Tse-Tung’s Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution begins, 1966.

>Six-Day War between Israelis and Arabs, 1967.

> Tet offensive, 1968.

> Soviets invade Czechoslovakia, 1968.

> Charles de Gaulle resigns, 1969.

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