1. WASHINGTON.
- Subjects
- *
COLD War, 1945-1991 ,FOREIGN relations of the United States - Abstract
Discusses possible reasons why Soviet leader Nikita Krushchev created the so-called Berlin crisis in the 1950s. Forces within the U.S. government which have been pressing for new negotiations with the Soviet government; U.S. government's alteration of its German policy; Krushchev's belief that communism could resolve the Cold War; Speculation on how far the Western powers would go toward some form of disengagement.
- Published
- 1959