Essays Tagged: "Khrushchev"
A research paper on The Cuban Missile Crisis..Not an Essay! WN
the world stood seemingly on the brink of ultimate disaster and nuclear war. The crisis ended with Khrushchev surrendering to the demands of U.S. president John F. Kennedy. The Cuban Missile Crisis g ... list nations.In 1960, as tensions mounted between Cuba and the United States, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev began planning to secretly supply Cuba with missiles that could deliver nuclear warheads ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
All of the aspects of the U-2 affair during the cold war.
ssion over the Soviet Union. The Eisenhower administration was forced to own up to the mission, and Khrushchev canceled the Paris Summit. As a result, The Cold War between the United States and the So ... an agreement to ban nuclear testing in the atmosphere. In 1959 Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev agreed to a September meeting in the United States to further discussions regarding a tes ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
The symbolic relationship between foreing policy,domestic issues and economic constraints.
le of "peacemaker". The U-2 incident opened tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. Khrushchev saw the flying of the plane as an "aggressive act" and if repeated, "it will be obliged t ... issile attack from Cuba would trigger an "all-out" attack on the Soviet Union. A letter from Nikita Khrushchev arrived, demanding that the United States agree to remove its Jupiter missiles from Turke ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Nikita Krushchev and why Russia is not evil. Needs cites taken out.
handle whatever the United States had. Sadly for the Soviets, that could only comfort the ignorant (Khrushchev 35).The first time that Eisenhower and Khrushchev met was at the Four-Power Summit confer ... d that they could work with each other but it was still going to be a long hard road. I don't think Khrushchev wanted to make it any harder than it had to be. Khrushchev wanted peace but more importan ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
Evaluate the ways in which Khrushchev tried to ease the tension after the Hungarian revolution.
Khrushchev had made three attempts to ease the tension after the Hungarian revolution. All of them h ... he Hungarian revolution. All of them had the same basis: nuclear weapons. Firstly, in December 1957 Khrushchev proposed banning all nuclear missiles from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Then on Ja ... osed banning all nuclear missiles from Poland, Czechoslovakia and Germany. Then on January 9th 1958 Khrushchev proposed summit level talks with Eisenhower on creating a nuclear free central Europe and ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
The Cuban Missile Crisis
worst point of the cold war. The major confrontation began when the United States discovered Nikata Khrushchev, the Soviet premier had secretly installed Soviet missiles that were carrying nuclear wea ... United States said to Cuba if the weapons were not dismantled and removed, that they would invade. Khrushchev thought that the United States would take no action. The Soviet diplomat denied that ther ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
What were the methods the USSR used to impose their control over eastern Europe and how effective were they?
wo main time periods to examine, namely, Eastern Europe under Stalin, and destalinised Russia under Khrushchev. If control were defined as the "ability to authorize, manage or direct", the former time ... stern European communist countries were proven efficient as long as he was in power. However, under Khrushchev, most of those binds the USSR had on its lackeys were broken. It cannot be questioned tha ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
To what extent did Khrushchev reduce tension in 1953-1960?
Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviets after the death of Stalin and a short struggle for power wi ... owever the success of Sputnik made the Americans once again paranoid and afraid of the Soviets. Did Khrushchev really succeed in the détente between the Soviets and the US, and to what extent d ... étente between the Soviets and the US, and to what extent did he success?Politically, during Khrushchev's "secret speech" at the Twentieth Congress of the C.P.S.U. in 1956, he openly attacked S ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
To what extent did Khrushchev help diffuse the Cold War up to 1960?
Although Khrushchev could not be consistent in all of his foreign policies during 1953 to 1960, his involveme ... ssian people and protection for the nation, both of which were essential to the country's survival. Khrushchev did not inherit a Russia that was free from bondage, and thus he had to find a way to neg ... ation of the Soviet sphere. The same claim could be made about Czechoslovakia, though again, Sergei Khrushchev, son of Nikkita Khrushchev and a historian as well, would eventually claim that the Sovie ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
To what extent did Khrushchev reduce tension during 1953-1960?
Nikita Sergeyevish Khrushchev became the Soviet leader shortly after the death of the previous Soviet leader Stalin in ... et leader shortly after the death of the previous Soviet leader Stalin in 1953. Everyone hoped that Khrushchev would bring a period of "thaw" in the Cold War. Although his intentions were noble the US ... n the Cold War. Although his intentions were noble the US remained cautious about the Soviet Union. Khrushchev tried various ways to help reduce the tension between the USSR and the Western countries, ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
Khrushchev's drive for peace between 1953 - 1960.
Upon the death of Stalin in 1953, Khrushchev emerged as the Soviet Union's new political giant. The dilemma that he faced was to eithe ... th the West to concentrate on the rebuilding of the USSR's war-torn economy, industries and cities. Khrushchev showed that he intended to appear to have chosen the latter through his domestic (includi ... ether questionable and the attempt at peace an overall failure.In the matters of domestic policies, Khrushchev brought Eastern Europe a brief Detente through his criticism of Stalinist diplomacy and b ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
What were the main reasons why the US and the USSR moved to detente in 1963-1975?
Blockade, however there was also a very short period of détente after the Korean War such as Khrushchev's secret speech in 1955. But the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962 increased the tensions expo ... se. Actually before that, China and the Soviets already had some problems with each other. From the Khrushchev's secret speech in 1955 on, China was not content with the USSR because the USSR's commun ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War
1960s Vocabulary
to the presidency (1960). Kennedy approved the failed invasion of the Bay of Pigs (1961) and forced Khrushchev to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba (1962). He also established the Peace Corps (1961) an ...
Subjects: History Term Papers
The Cuban Missile Crisis
However, war was not the result due to great cooperation from both President Kennedy and President Khrushchev and each of the decisions made by the leaders was crucial in the outcome of The Crisis. K ... ome of The Crisis. Kennedy's choice to take action by means of quarantine instead of air-strike and Khrushchev's decision to abide by the quarantines were perhaps the two most significant decisions ma ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Why did the USSR face a challenge to its authority in Hungary?
the Hungarian Uprising. In October of 1956, the Hungarian uprising occurred in Budapest, upon which Khrushchev sent in 30,000 Russian troops on November 4th and installed a new government in Hungary, ... s were lost. Imre Nagy was caught and executed. The crushing of the Hungarian Uprising demonstrated Khrushchev's contradictory actions after stating that he would concede greater independence to satel ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > European History
The Cuban Missile Crisis
its breath as President J.F Kennedy and his advisors deliberated on how to react to Premier Mikhail Khrushchev's actions, and decided on blockading Cuba in order to prevent missiles from reaching thei ... to nuclear war the world has ever come, the effects it had on Kennedy's image, the damage it did to Khrushchev's reputation, and the effects it had on negotiations between the two superpowers.The Cuba ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > International Organizations & Conflicts
JFK
to think so, but the facts that will be provided will tilt in the favor of the Soviet Union leader Khrushchev. The reason this whole situation happened was because the United States would not ... ing the public it makes the situation intensify and puts each leader under extreme pressure to act. Khrushchev responded not by using the media, but through a letter demonstrating the position that he ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Cuban missile crisis
hat the Cubans had left I the United States, and ignited the support of Castro by the Soviet Union. Khrushchev's strong backing of his ally was a direct result of the invasion. The day of the incident ... s conference that he was "not for invading Cuba, at this time" (Walton 109). Surely both Castro and Khrushchev were threatened, not reassured, by that statement, making them even more convinced that t ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History
Title: To what extent did Mao's leadership cause the failure of the Great Leap Forward?
isastrous results. Above all this, Mao made claims that China was "having too much food", promising Khrushchev unrestrained supplies of food for nuclear submarines. Other countries also received the " ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
Cuban Missiles and the Cold War.
n every aspect of liberating Cuba from Castro. The failure of the Bay of Pigs opened Cuba's door to Khrushchev. Fidel Castro accepted the argument that Cubans needed to accept missiles for their self- ... ly 90 miles away from the United States and was of much greater importance than one half of Berlin. Khrushchev was smart not to waste his time in Berlin and not supporting the East Germans as they dec ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > World History > The Cold War