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Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...
Taubman provides comprehensive details about Khrushchev's "Secret Speech", as well as his involvement in the 1956 Soviet invasion of Hungary and the Cuban Missile Crisis. There is also a fairly detailed account of Khrushchev's troubled and ambivalent relationship with artists and intellectuals, which reveals him at his worst, often devoid of ...
He participated in both the Camp David summit between Dwight Eisenhower and Khrushchev and the Vienna summit between Kennedy and Khrushchev. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, Thompson served on Kennedy's ExComm (Executive Committee of the National Security Council) when the US received two messages from Khrushchev, one quite conciliatory and the ...
Nina Khrushcheva, whose great-grandfather was the Soviet Union leader during the 1962 standoff, said the present conflict is more dangerous.
The entire world watched with bated breath to see if this moment was the tipping point for World War III.
Ultimately, the crisis subsided when the Soviet ships carrying the additional missiles turned back at the blockade without incident and Khrushchev agreed to remove the existing missiles from Cuba.
The same evening, the delegates of foreign communist parties were called to the Kremlin and given the opportunity to read the prepared text of the Khrushchev speech, which was treated as a top secret state document. [10] On 1 March, the text of the Khrushchev speech was distributed in printed form to senior Central Committee functionaries. [11]
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