Cold war kennedy and khrushchev. The seasoned soviet leader was not impressed by the youthful american president and decided to challenge him. In june 1961 kennedy met with soviet leader nikita khrushchev in vienna austria. President hurtled head first into another disaster. As in berlin a year earlier john f.
Kennedy faced soviet leader nikita khrushchev and once again the superpowers were. As the name implies frankel focuses on the actions decisions and thoughts of the two major players in the crisis president kennedy and premier khrushchev. Kennedy of the united states and premier nikita khrushchev of the soviet union. Kennedy khrushchev and the cuban missile crisis is a short readable account of the 1962 cuban missile crisis.
At a june meeting in vienna kennedy and khrushchev took the measure of each other. The president concluded that america faced a ruthless opponent committed to advancing world communism through wars of national liberation. His first and only summit with soviet premier nikita khrushchev. Kennedys botched bay of pigs invasion the us.
There are two man in the cartoon. Most tellings of the story at least american tellings pose khrushchev as a bellicose instigator perfectly willing to take the world into a nuclear war to demonstrate his strength to the west. The summit took place only days after the assassination of president of the dominican republic rafael trujillo. Just six weeks after john f.
They are having a competition to see who have greater power. In these versions kennedy is the levelheaded sage guiding the brilliant men of his executive committee through intricate diplomatic maneuvers to outfox the wily old russian and defuse the crisis. This is a symbolic meaning of the competition between the soviet union and the united states in cold war period. Last updated 2013 11 18 for fourteen days during october 1962 the world held its breath as john f kennedy known as jfk and nikita khrushchev tried to reach a compromise and avoid nuclear war.
On the left hand side it is the soviet union leader khrushchev and the right hand side is the us president kennedy. See a memorandum below outlining the main points of conversation between president kennedy and khrushchev at their first lunch meeting kennedy was surprised by khrushchevs combative tone during the summit.
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