How effectively did Khrushchev deal with the challenges posed by the Cold War
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- How effectively did Khrushchev deal with the challenges posed by Cold War?
- Peaceful coexistence
- Met with Eisenhower in 1959 and Kennedy in 1961
- disrupted UN meeting in 1960: "we bury you with our bombs"
- meetings with presidents didn't go well - meeting with Kennedy resulted in Berlin Wall
- U2 incident
- 1st May 1960
- USA sent U2 plane over Soviet Union and it was shot down
- Russia didn't attend the summit in Paris when they didn't receive an apology
- Russia exchanged the pilot for a spy
- 1st May 1960
- Hungarian Crisis, 1956
- Hungarian's leader Nagy was trying to make Hungary a completely neutral country
- There was large protests
- 20,000 were killed and 200,000 fled when the Soviets invaded
- Nagy was killed after the West didn't intervene
- The Berlin Wall
- 200,000 workers were leaving in 1961
- Invading Berlin would cause a war, so Khrushchev built a war to maintain peace will securing East Berlin
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- The soviet union was behind the USA in terms of long range missiles so Cuba was a strategic place
- Outcomes:
- Hotline
- Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
- Khrushchev was seen as the provoker of nuclear war and weak by the Soviet Union
- Peaceful coexistence
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