- U2 plane (Gary Powers) - Tensions build
1961
- Bay of pigs
- Yuri Gagarin - first man in space - Russia ahead in the space race
1962
- Cuban missile crisis
- Khrushchev backs down - seen as weak - unpopular
- November - division of party into two parts - industrial and agricultural
1964
- Khrushchev out of power
- November - CC Plenum - annulled Khrushchev's reforms
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