Rambai muchinyora ndima iyi - Pashure peCrisis yeCuba Missile, nhambo itsva yakatanga iyo yakaona kupatsanuka kweSino-Soviet pakati peChina neSoviet Union kunetsa ukama mukati meCommunist sphere, nepo France, nyika yeWestern Bloc, yakatanga kuda kuzvitonga kukuru kwechiito. USSR yakapinda muCzechoslovakia
kudzvinyirira Prague Spring ya1968, apo United States yakava nemhirizhonga yomukati inobva kumubatanidzwa wokurwira kodzero dzavanhu uye kushora Hondo yeVietnam. Muma1960 kusvika kuma1970, sangano rorugare rwenyika dzakawanda rakatanga pakati pevanhu munyika yose. Kuedza zvombo zvenyukireya uye kubvisa zvombo zvenyukireya zvakaitwa, pamwe chete nokuratidzira kukuru kwairwisana nehondo. Pakazosvika makore ekuma1970, mativi ose akanga atanga kubvuma rugare nokuchengeteka, zvichitanga nguva yokuzorora iyo yakaona Strategic Arms Limitation Talks uye US ichivhura ukama nePeople's Republic of China sechinhu chinopesana neUSSR. Hurumende dzinoverengeka dzinozviti ndedzechiMarxist dzakaumbwa muhafu yechipiri yama1970 muNyika Yechitatu, kubatanidza Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Afghanistan neNicaragua.