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August 13: Berlin Wall: To stem the massive tide of emigration from the Communist East into the democratic West (200,000 escape East Germany in 1960 alone), the construction of a wall dividing the city of Berlin begins under Soviet direction. [98] October 25: U.S. and Soviet tanks face off at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin. [99] [100]
Parties participating in the event. In 1960 an International Meeting of Communist and Workers Parties was held in Moscow.It was preceded by a conference of 12 Communist and Workers Parties of Socialist countries held in Moscow November 1957 [1] and the Bucharest Conference of Representatives of Communist and Workers Parties in June 1960. [2]
[6] [9] [106] [112] Meanwhile, unusual Soviet military activity in the Far East was detected by the US intelligence in the late August, with Soviet's Pravda on August 28 warning that a war with Communist China, if broke out, would involve "lethal armaments and modern means of delivery" and "would leave no continent untouched."
As a result, the worldwide communist movement became poly-centric, meaning that the Soviet Union lost its role as 'leader' of the world communist movement. [106] In the aftermath of the invasion, Brezhnev reiterated this doctrine in a speech at the Fifth Congress of the Polish United Workers' Party (PUWP) on 13 November 1968: [107]
Date: Early 1960s to early 1970s: Location: Worldwide: Outcome: Cultural movements British Invasion Hippie movement (Hippie trail) Back-to-the-land movement Sexual revolution Swinging Sixties (Swinging London) Rise of the music festival New Age New Wave movements Progg Protest movements Protests of 1968 Anti-nuclear movement Civil rights ...
Communism was decisively defeated in other states, including Malaya and Indonesia. In 1972–1979, there was détente between the Soviet Union and the United States. The end of communism in Europe (1980–1992) in which Soviet client states were heavily on the defensive as in Afghanistan and Nicaragua. The United States escalated the conflict ...
Timeline: Seven decades of Communist China 1949 - Mao Zedong proclaims the People's Republic of China in Beijing 1950 - China supports North Korea in the Korean War ... At least 100,000 Chinese ...
The Congo Crisis in 1960 drew Cold War battle lines in Africa, as the Democratic Republic of the Congo became a Soviet ally, causing concern in the West. [3] However, by the early 1960s, the Cold War reached its most dangerous point with the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, as the world stood on the brink of nuclear war.