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Khrushchev Warns Italy
VILLACH, Austria—Soviet Premier Khrushchev implied today that Soviet troops will march into neutral Austria if American rocket bases in Italy are used against Soviet bloc countries. He suggested the Austrians should advise Italy "not to play with fire."
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Closing of the border
On Saturday 12 August 1961, the leaders of East Germany attended a garden party at a government guesthouse in Döllnsee, in a wooded area to the north of East Berlin, and Walter Ulbricht signed the order to close the border and erect a Wall around West Berlin. At midnight, East Germany's border police, the East German army and units of the Soviet Army began to close the border; by morning on Sunday 13 August 1961, the border to West Berlin had been shut.
Wikipedia →Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in the United Kingdom, Italy and Turkey were matched by Soviet deployments of nuclear missiles in Cuba. The confrontation is widely considered the closest the Cold War came to escalating into full-scale nuclear war.
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Kennedy secretly agreed to remove all missiles in Turkey, on the border of the Soviet Union, and possibly those in southern Italy, in exchange for Khrushchev removing all missiles in Cuba. When the crisis had ended McNamara gave the order to dismantle the missiles in both Italy and Turkey.
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