The incident caused Eisenhower to cancel an important summit meeting with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month. The spy plane itself was technologically advanced for its time and was able to travel at altitudes of up to 70‚000 feet and was equipped with high end photography equipment. The CIA assured Eisenhower
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implied that he wouldn’t hesitate to use nuclear power.”30 If West didn’t accept the ultimatum‚ East would cut them off completely and traveling between the two states would only be allowed with permission of the East German government “June 1961‚ Khrushchev gave provisional permission for Ulbricht to begin preparations for physically dividing Berlin.”31 13 August 1961‚ the city was being divided by barbed wire fence‚ which then later became an 8ft. tall wall.32 Pictures of people jumping over the
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Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev gave a speech at a Soviet-Polish meeting in Moscow that would ultimately culminate into one of the most profound crises of the Cold War. The Soviet leader accused the Western Powers of violating the 1945 Potsdam Agreement and sabotaging the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and recommended that the Federal Republic abandon‚ “the hope that we shall cease to support the German Democratic Republic.” (Address by Premier‚ 1958). Soon after‚ Khrushchev delivered a speech
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References: Bucher‚ B. (2007). Review of Polly Jones‚ ed.‚ ’The dilemmas of de-Stalinization: Negotiating cultural and social change in the Khrushchev era. ’ Slavic Review‚ Priestland‚ D. (2002). Soviet democracy‚ 1917-91. European History Quarterly‚ 32(1)‚ 111-130. The History Guide. (2001). Lectures on Twentieth Century Europe. Retrieved March 4‚ 2008‚ from the World Wide Web: Retrieved
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death of Stalin and the end of the Korean war. The death of Stalin was a possible reason for a thaw. People suggested that the changes in leadership were an important reason for the thaw. Less suspicious Soviet personalities as for example Nikita Khrushchev and Prime Minister Malenkov ascended. Also‚ the same happened in the USA with the end of Truman’s presidency and the election of Eisenhower. This was important because the cold war had been extremely tense when Stalin was the leader of the USSR
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In order to potentially stop the next attack Castro asked Premier Nikita Khrushchev‚ of the Soviet Union‚ for nuclear missiles in order to scare off the United States. Khrushchev agreed to give Cuba nuclear weapons which was be the first deployment of nuclear weapons outside the Soviet Union. President John F. Kennedy at first did not believe that the Soviet Union would
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During the administration of our thirty fifth United States President‚ John F. Kennedy‚ the Cold War reached its most dangerous state‚ when the United States and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) came to the brink of nuclear war in what was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. In this analysis‚ I will research and answer questions such as‚ what was the Cold War? What started the tensions between the United States and the USSR? What actions were taken and how were the problems resolved
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the song‚ including political and entertainment events. Although they are all individual topics‚ some actually relate to others‚ or even lead up to the next. Some of these topics include North Korea‚ South Korea‚ Panmunjom (1949-1952)‚ Malenkov‚ Khrushchev (1953- 1956)‚ Little Rock‚ Ole Miss (1957 and 1962) punk rock‚ and heavy metal suicide (1974-75 and 1984-91). These specific topics are related to each other in some way‚ but altogether have made a large impact on the United States in their era
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ever come to nuclear war. There are many causes that led the world to such confrontation that was ultimately the product of the hostility and secrecy between the nations. As the world sat on the brink of mass destruction‚ all hope lied with Nikita Khrushchev and President Kennedy coming to a compromise. It is because of this that it is worth analysing the true cause of the crisis‚ or if it was a culmination of causes. One of the causes was the US deploying missiles in Turkey to face the Soviet Union
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