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Year in Review Highlights 1961 World Crises
A compact chronicle of 1961 events: Laos tensions with North Vietnam and U.S. calls for SEATO action. Eisenhower military buildup. Cuba relations and Castro expulsions. Congo trials and U Thant as UN chief. Kennedy's presidency beginnings. Berlin and Berlin crisis developments. space milestones. Algeria, Angola, Laos cease fires and unrest. various aviation disasters and assassinations. and shifting Cold War alignments across Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Laos
U.S
SEATO
Eisenhower
Pacific
Cuba
Castro
U.S.S.R
North Viet Nam
Algeria
Georgia
New York
Air Force
Atlantic
Ike
Congress
Idlewild
South Africa
British Commonwealth of Nations
Britain
Kennedy
Russia
House
Macmillan
Florida
Lave
London
Paris
New Mexico
Adolf Eichmann
Jerusalem
Yuri Gagarin
Earth
Latin America
Algiers
France
de Gaulle
Khrushche
Vienna
Geneva
U.N. Security Council
Portugal
Angola
Krushchev
West
Arthur H. Dean
U.N
America
Eichmann
Iraq
Kuwait
Ernest Hemingway
Park Chung-hi
Korea
Israel
North Korea
Dominican Republic
Khrushchev
Mozambique
Denver
West Berlin
Ty Cobb
Berlin
Bizerte
Charleston
W.va
Virgil Grissom