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Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations

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“Milestones in the History of U.S. Foreign Relations” has been retired and is no longer maintained. For more information, please see the full notice.
  • 1961–1968: The Presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson
  • The Laos Crisis, 1960–1963
  • The Congo, Decolonization, and the Cold War, 1960–1965
  • USAID and PL–480, 1961–1969
  • The Bay of Pigs Invasion and its Aftermath, April 1961–October 1962
  • The Cuban Missile Crisis, October 1962
  • Alliance for Progress and Peace Corps, 1961–1969
  • The Limited Test Ban Treaty, 1963
  • U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: the Gulf of Tonkin and Escalation, 1964
  • The India-Pakistan War of 1965
  • The 1967 Arab-Israeli War
  • U.S. Involvement in the Vietnam War: The Tet Offensive, 1968
  • Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968
  • The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), 1968

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