In 1964, Brezhnev ousts Khrushchev from the Soviet leadership in a coup.  A biography of Brezhnev is given.  He would firmly establish his leadership in 1965 and afterwards and remained leader until his death in 1982.  During time it seemed that Soviet Union was strong but internal weakness was undermining it.

The  Soviets bring down an American U2 spy plane over the Soviet Union and capture the pilot, this leads an international incident.  The building of the Berlin Wall in 1961, dividing the City of Berlin into two, in order to stop East Germans fleeing to the  West. 

A review of the course of the Cold War in Asia between 1945 and 1965.  This review will briefly deal with the effects of the Chinese Civil War, the First Indochina War, the Korean War, the start of the Vietnam War as well as other wars in Asia n this period.