HIS306H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Cuban Missile Crisis, Berlin Wall, Monroe Doctrine
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1955: khrushchev takes over malenkov; also spoke about peaceful coexistence and focus on internal/domestic politics/needs: khrush(cid:272)he(cid:448)"s (cid:862) e(cid:272)ret(cid:863) pee(cid:272)h. Given to 20th congress of ussr in 1956 meant to be internal speech for delegates. Sounds really good (especially when leaked to the west); reality was different crackdown on uprisings and strikes was put down on eastern europe countries that wanted to loosen the stalinism e. g. hungary 1956. K came to us in 1959 tourned around; vp nixon toured to russia; exchanged massive national exhibits: challenges to peaceful coexistence. Divided germany and berlin and the nuclear arms race presented challenges: asymmetrical germany. Problem with german state was that there was asymmetry in the division started to seem a(cid:272)(cid:272)epta(cid:271)le (cid:271)/(cid:272) (cid:374)either sides (cid:272)ould e(cid:374)(cid:448)isio(cid:374) ger(cid:373)a(cid:374)(cid:455) u(cid:374)der the other"s i(cid:374)flue(cid:374)(cid:272)e. Different material capacities, economic, etc; west was bigger and had 5 times the economic input had greater influence on the continent.
