1. 1953-1963

2.  Ike  Background  Soft on communism?  Secretary of State Foster Dulles  “Rolling Back” Communism

3.  New Look  The CIA  Massive Retaliation  Brinkmanship

4.  The Death of Stalin  George Malenkov  Nikita Khrushchev  “Peaceful co-existence”  Avoiding a nuclear holocaust

5.  Economic Factors  Military spending versus consumer goods.  GNP  Results of less military spending.

6.  April 1955  The Austrian State Treaty  July 1955  The Geneva Summit  Arms Race Discussions

7. Soviet Proposals: Mutual disbandment of NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Withdrawal of foreign troops from Europe followed by the drawing up of a European Security Treaty. Free elections to be carried out for a reunified German government. U.S. Proposals: An “open skies” proposal. This meant each side would exchange plans of military installations and allow aerial surveillance of each other’s installations. U.S. Reaction: Hostile. These ideas were unacceptable to the West European governments and no agreement was reached on any of these proposals. Soviet Reaction: Hostile. The Soviets did not even bother to make a formal reply. They dismissed it as “nothing more than a bold espionage plot”. (The United States went ahead and used the U-2 planes.)

8.  Was the Geneva Summit a failure? Nikolai Bulganin

9.  Why did East-West tension increase again after 1955?  Dag Hammarskjöld  Gamal Abdel Nasser  The Suez Canal  UNEF

10.  Khrushchev’s De- Stalinization Speech  The Eisenhower Doctrine  The Technology Race

11.  Sputnik I and II  The Missile Gap  The Gaither Report  Fallout Shelters

12.  Education  U-2 Spy Planes  NASA

13.  Living in West Berlin  Propaganda and Espionage  Khrushchev’s proposal  Walter Ulbricht  Summit Results

14.  The Spirit of Camp David  The U-2 Spy Plane  U.S. Claims  Gary Powers

15.  U.S. Domination  Sugar  Exports  Unemployment

16.  Background  Resentment towards America  Cuban People’s Party  General Fulgencio Batista  Methods of Enforcement

17.  July 26, 1953  Moncada Army Barracks  Trial and Arrests  History Will Absolve Me  Cuba’s new hero

18.  May 1955  General Amnesty  Castro moves to Mexico  Student Protests  April 1956  Political Support

19.  December 2, 1956  Castro Returns  Sierra Maestra Mountains  False Claims  February 1957  Castro’s New Image

20.  The Role of the Catholic Church  The 26 th of July Movement  Small numbers  Summer 1958  New Year’s Day 1959  Changes

21.  Moving to America  Eisenhower vs. Castro  Nationalized Businesses  Embargos

22.  Visits from the Soviets  Trade Agreements  Oil and Sugar  Anti-American Sentiment

23.  Origins  The Plan  The Attack  Outcome  Reasons  Results

24.  Flexible Response  Conventional forces  Nuclear arsenal  CIA  Assisting countries against Communism  Negotiations with the USSR

25.  The Vienna Summit of 1961  Reasons for the Wall  August 13, 1961

26.  For Khrushchev?  For Walter Ulbricht?  For the Citizens of Berlin?  For the Cold War?  The Symbol of the Cold War

27.  Why did Khrushchev put missiles in Cuba?  Intermediate Range ballistic missiles (IRBMs)  Missiles in Turkey  Protecting Communism in Cuba.

28.  October 14, 1962  First Strike Capability  Upcoming Elections  13 Days  Quarantine  October 24, 1962  Khrushchev’s Telegrams

29.  U-2 Spy Plane Incident  Ambassador Llewellyn (Tommy) Thompson  Attorney General Robert Kennedy  Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin  The Secret Deal

30.  How effective was Kennedy’s handling of the Cuban Missile Crisis?  The Traditional View  The Revisionist View  New Interpretations

31.  What conclusions can be reached about Khrushchev’s actions?  Results for the Soviets?  The Soviet Military perspective  Khrushchev’s relationship with Castro

32.  For the USA?  For the USSR?  For Cuba?  For China?  For the International Situation?

33.  June 26, 1963  Ich bin ein Berliner! http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6px15_jfk- ich-bin-ein-berliner-1963_news