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Time line, 1960s


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13.2.1960 French atom bomb test

1.5.1960 U-2 plane shotdown over the USSR

16.5.1960 Four super powers meeting in Paris

.8.1960 Soviet technicians called off China

8.11.1960 Kennedy wins presidential election

12.4.1961 The flight of Yuriy Gagarin

13.4.1961 Sealing of the East German border in Berlin

17.4.1961 Building of the Berlin Wall

22.10.1962 - 27.10.1962 Cuban rocket crisis

20.6.1963 USA and USSR established a "hotline" connection

26.6.1963 Kennedy visits Berlin

25.7.1963 USA and USSR sign nuclear testing ban treaty

22.11.1963 Kennedy killed, Johnson takes over presidency

15.10.1964 Brezhnev replaces Khrushchev as chairman of CPSU

16.10.1964 Chinese atomic bomb test

3.11.1964 Johnson wins presidential election

.2.1965 - .3.1965 Conflict between USA and Viet-kong flames up

1.6.1966 France quits NATO command

27.1.1967 USA, USSR and UK sign aerial nuclear test ban treaty

5.6.1967 - 10.6.1967 6-days war in Near East

30.1.1968 Viet-Kong starts Tat offensive

1.7.1968 USA, USSR and UK sign anti nuclear arms proliferation treaty

20.8.1968 - 21.8.1968 Warshaw pact armies enter CSSR

5.11.1968 Nixon elected president of the USA

..1969 First secret meeting of H.Kissinger and Xuan Thuy of North Vietnam

6.1.1969 French weapons sales to Israel banned

18.1.1969 Four-party conference about Vietnam in Paris

20.1.1969 Nixon enters White House

21.1.1969 Soviet-Jordan treaty about technichal and economical cooperation

28.1.1969 Gromyko accuses USA of violating Laos' inner affairs

22.2.1969 Nationalist offensive in South Vietnam

24.2.1969 Nixon starts his journey across Western Europe

26.2.1969 USSR proposes a new definition of armed agrassion in the UN

2.3.1969 Soviet-Chinese conflict (Chinese assault on the Ussuri river)

17.3.1969 Member states of the Warshaw pact proposed a conference about European security

18.3.1969 Heavy US bombardment in Cambodia

25.3.1969 Pakistani president M.Ajub Khan resignes after civil desorders. The goverment was appointed by Jahra Khan.

1.4.1969 Lin Piao succeses Mao Ce-tung

11.4.1969 The Soviets re-established conference with China from 1964

27.4.1969 Referendum held in France, de Gaulle steps down

26.5.1969 Soviet-French agreement about economical and trade cooperation for years 1970-74

3.6.1969 Soviet-British long-term business agreement for years 1969-75

5.6.1969 - 17.6.1969 International meeting of 75 communistic and workmen's parties in Moscow

13.6.1969 Soviet goverment accepted the temporary goverment of South-Vietnam

15.6.1969 G.Pompidou elected new French president

1.9.1969 Goverment overthrown in Lybia, lead taken by colonel Qaddafi

3.9.1969 North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Min dies

11.9.1969 USSR ministers' chairman A.Kosygin in Benjing

19.9.1969 USSR proposes a meeting about strengthening international security at the UN General Assembly

15.10.1969 Moratorium in the US - demonstration against Vietnam War

20.10.1969 China and USSR start negotiations in Benjing

21.10.1969 W. Brandt becomes West German chancelor

30.10.1969 - 31.10.1969 Conference between ministeros of foreign affairs about preparations of the European conference in Paris

3.11.1969 Nixon declared vietnamisation plan

15.11.1969 Biggest anti-Vietnam demonstration in the USA

17.11.1969 First round of the SALT negotiations between USA and USSR in Helsinki

24.11.1969 SALT ratified by both parties



 

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