TY - BOOK AU - Williamson,Richard D. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - First steps toward detente: American diplomacy in the Berlin crisis, 1958-1963 AV - E183.8.S65 W55 2012 U1 - 327.7304709/046 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - Lexington Books KW - Kennedy, John F. KW - Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, KW - Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 KW - United States KW - Foreign relations KW - Soviet Union KW - 1961-1963 KW - Berlin (Germany) KW - International status KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : first steps to detente -- Prologue : the US, USSR, and Berlin, 1953-1958 -- "A free city" : Khrushchev's November proposals, Allied response, and a foreign minister's conference, November 1958-May 1959 -- "Seeking a summit" : Khrushchev's US visit, Western heads of state meeting, the U-2 incident, and the Paris Summit, June 1959-December 1960 -- "Vienna & the Wall" : Kennedy's first months, Vienna Summit, the Acheson plan, and the Berlin Wall, January-August 1961 -- "Salami tactics" : Allied collapse, Kennedy's private approach, and showdown at Checkpoint Charlie, September-December 1961 -- "Vital interests" : Thompson-Gromyko in Moscow, Rusk-Gromyko in Geneva, and Rusk-Dobrynin in Washington, Geneva ENDC sessions, and Soviet missiles in Cuba, January-August 1962 -- "A slippery slope" : new harassment in Berlin, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Allied estrangement, and the limited test ban treaty, September 1962-November 1963 -- Summary : American diplomacy in the Berlin crisis; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=928517 ER -