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Premier Nikita Khrushchev
About the capitalist states, it doesn't depend on you whether we (Soviet Union) exist.If you don't like us, don't accept our invitations, and don'tinvite us to come to see you. Whether you like it our not, history is on our side. We will bury you. -- 1956
De-Stalinization Program
The Hungarian Uprising: 1956
Imre Nagy, Hungarian
Prime Minister Promised free
elections.
This could lead to the end of communist rule in Hungary.
Vienna 1961
Khrushchev & JFK meet to discuss Berlin and nuclear proliferation. Khrushchev
thinks that JFK is young, inexperienced, and can be rolled.
Bay of Pigs Debacle (1961)
• 1902 Platt Amendment• 1904 Roosevelt Corollary• 1947 Truman authorizes “hemispheric
defense” treaty (i.e. “Rio Pact”)• 1948 Marshall leads 9th Pan-Am Conference
in Bogotá resulting in formation of OAS• 1954 Operation PBSUCCESS leads to
overthrow of Arbenz Regime in Guatemala.• 1955 Castro begins the 26th of July
Movement in Mexico where he had been imprisoned for the Moncada Attack in 1953.
• 1959 Castro overthrows Batista• 1960 Eisenhower authorizes covert
overthrow of Castro
Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
We went eyeball-to-eyeball with the Russians, and the other man blinked!