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On September 15, 1959, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev arrived in the United States to meet with President Dwight Eisenhower. At Eisenhower's vacation home at Camp David, Maryland, the two leaders discussed the worsening economic situation in communist East Germany, which was causing East Germans to flee into West Germany. Eight months later, in May 1960, any progress that had resulted from the summit was nullified when a U.S. spy plane was shot...
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Shortly after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba, U.S. president John F. Kennedy met Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev for the first time. During this discussion in Vienna, the cold war adversaries discussed the fate of Berlin, a weapons test ban treaty, and Laos. Two months after this meeting, Khrushchev directed Soviet troops to begin construction of the Berlin Wall.
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While in Moscow to represent the United States at the American National Exhibition in 1959, Vice President Richard M. Nixon famously engaged Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev in a debate over the relative merits of capitalism versus communism. The debate, which took place in a showroom of American kitchen appliances, was dubbed the "Kitchen Debate" by the American media. Khrushchev repeatedly predicted that the Soviet Union would become more influential...
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In September 1959, Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev visited the United States at President Dwight Eisenhower's invitation. At a press conference, Eisenhower stated his hope that the visit would contribute to the "melting" of the cold war. However, relations soured when a U.S. spy plane was shot down by Soviet troops in May 1960.
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A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “[A] riveting retrospective examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis” (The Washington Times), from one of the giants of American journalism, Pulitzer Prize winner Max Frankel
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
In High Noon in the Cold War, Max Frankel captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside...
Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in History
In High Noon in the Cold War, Max Frankel captures the Cuban Missile Crisis in a new light, from inside...
16) Old flames
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Scotland Yard’s Inspector Troy returns in a Cold War spy thriller hailed as “stylish, sophisticated, suspenseful . . . A fictional tour de force” (Patrick Anderson, The Washington Post).
In April 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned...
In April 1956, at the height of the Cold War, Khrushchev and Bulganin, leaders of the Soviet Union, are in Britain on an official visit. Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard is assigned...