First steps toward detente [electronic resource] : American diplomacy in the Berlin crisis, 1958-1963 / Richard D. Williamson.
Material type: TextPublication details: Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, c2012Description: xxx, 237 pISBN: 9780739168813 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963 | Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeevich, 1894-1971 | Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989 | United States -- Foreign relations -- Soviet Union | Soviet Union -- Foreign relations -- United States | United States -- Foreign relations -- 1961-1963 | Berlin (Germany) -- International statusGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 327.7304709/046 LOC classification: E183.8.S65 | W55 2012Online resources: Click to ViewIncludes 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.
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