Kennedy and Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev. For years numerous books on the Cuban Missile Crisis saw print bereft of archival research in the Soviet Union or the unknown tape recordings that President Kennedy made of the crisis management team he assembled to deal with the missiles in Cuba. ...
Having taken up the reins of the country in September 1953, Nikita Khrushchev remained in power for eleven years. His stint included such key events as the de-Stalinization, a partial liberalization of public life (“thaw”) and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Khrushchev joined the highest political ...
In 1962, the Soviet Unionball send missiles to Cubaball in response to the USAball's military blockade of Cubaball and triggered the Cuban Missile crisis, which almost brought the two superpowers at the brink of nuclear war. In 1973, USAball lost a proxy war to North Vietnamball and ...
Oct. 4, 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite that orbits the Earth in about 98 minutes and spurs the Space Race. In 1961, Soviet Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to fly in space. October 1962: The 13-day Cuban Missile Crisis leads Americans to ...
Nikita Khrushchev succeeded Stalin after he died in 1953 and was best remembered as the leader of the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. The following head of state after Khrushchev was Leonid Brezhnev who ruled the Soviet Union during an era of relaxing tensions called "detente". ...
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Khrushchev ruled the Soviet Union during the construction of the Berlin Wall, the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion (in which the CIA attempted to overthrow Cuban leader Fidel Castro) and the Cuban Missile Crisis, which many believe to be the closest the United States and the Soviet Union ever ...
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Rus. Soyuz Sovetskikh Sotsialisticheskikh Respublik, former republic. It was established in 1922 and dissolved in 1991. The Soviet Union was the first state to be based on Marxist socialism (see also Marxism;
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