Tension continued to grow between the United States and The Soviet Union during the course of the 1960s.

The United States enters the Vietnam conflict

The Cuban missle crisis:White House tapes

The Cuban missle crisis:description of events

Policy of coercion

Letter from Czech hardliners to Soviet Government

The invasion of Czechoslovakia: 1968

The space race

 

The decade was also witness to a number of internal changes within the Soviet Union.

The fall of Khruschev

Brezhnev's rule

annecdotes about Brezhnev

stagnation