1960s

Question 1

1960
(4)

Answer 1

• Feb - Soviet 1st Deputy PM visits Cuba and agrees a reciprocal trade agreement
• May - Paris Summit, U2 Spy plane
• 1st SLMBs, US
• Dec - formation of NLF

Question 2

1961
(8)

Answer 2

• US Jupiter missiles in Turkey ready for use
• Jan - Kennedy President
• April - Bay of Pigs
• April - Yuri Gagarin in space
• June - Vienna Summit
• Summer - Berlin Crisis resumed
• June - 2nd Berlin Ultimatum
• 13th Aug - Berlin Wall

Question 3

1962
(3)

Answer 3

• 1962-70 - Operation Ranch Hand ‘Rainbow Fertilisers’
• March - introduction of Strategic Hamlet Programme
• 16-28th Oct - Cuban Missile Crisis

Question 4

1963
(6)

Answer 4

• April - Jupiter missiles secretly withdrawn from Turkey
• June - Moscow Washington hotline
• Aug - Moscow Test Ban Treaty
• Nov - Diem assassinated (1st)
• Nov - Kennedy assassinated
• 1963-4 - OPLAN 34A and counterinsurgency stratagy

Question 5

1964
(4)

Answer 5

• Aug - Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
• Oct - Khrushchev deposed and replaced with Brezhnev
• Oct - PRC develops nuclear weapons
• Nov - landslide LBJ victory

Question 6

1965
(5)

Answer 6

• Feb - Pleiku incident, 12h later, Operation Flaming Dart
• March 1965-Nov 1968 Operation Rolling Thunder
• March 3,500 combat troops landed at Da Nang
• April - Brezhnev requested a meeting with China and NV to respond to US escalation, Mao refused
• Nov - battle of Ia Drang

Question 7

1967
(3)

Answer 7

• 23-5 June - Glassboro
• Oct - Anti-War protests led by MLK
• Nov - McNamara resigned as Secretary of Defense

Question 8

1968
(15)

Answer 8

• Announced US was winning and rolling back communism
• Jan - Dubcek announced a series of reforms
• Jan - Tet Offensive
• Feb - Clark Clifford (dove) became Sec of Defense
• 16 March - Robert Kennedy announced seeking Democratic nomination
• March - My Lai Massacre
• 31 March - LBJ withdraws from presidential race
• April - July - Brezhnev in constant contact with Dubcek
• April - Columbia University protests
• May - Start of peace talks
• July - Nuclear Non-Proliferation treaty
• Aug - Tito visited Dubcek
• 20-1 Aug - Brezhnev ordered full-scale invasion to overthrow Dubcek
• Brezhnev Doctrine
• Nov - Nixon campaigns on peace with honour

Question 9

1969
(5)

Answer 9

• Jan - Nixon’s inauguration, Kissinger National Security Advisor
• Apollo space programme put 1st man on moon
• Nixon Doctrine
• July - network of diplomacy with PRC (AA)
• Appointment of Willy Brandt as FRG Chancellor