which two key events in the cold war happened before 1970

Answer 1

1. The Cuban Missile Crisis (1962): A 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba, which brought the world to the brink of nuclear war.

2. The Berlin Crisis of 1961: Tensions between the East and West escalated when the Soviet Union erected the Berlin Wall to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the West, leading to a significant increase in Cold War tensions.