1.  Kyle Gornick

2.  Born in Kalinovka, Ukraine on April 5, 1894  Brief formal education  First World War- Involved in trade unions, joined Bolsheviks in October Revolution of 1917  Fought for the Red Army, finished technical education after Bolshevik victory

3.  Became party secretary of the Petrovsko-Mariinsk in 1925  Impressed Lazar Kaganovich- secretary-general of the Ukrainian Communist Division  Became the next secretary-general of Ukraine Communist Party in 1938  Suppressed Ukrainian and Polish nationalists in WWII  Transferred Soviet Industry away from invading Germans  Appointed lieutenant general during wartime- led efficient guerrilla fighting against the Germans

4.  Placed in charge of rebuilding Ukraine  Famine struck Ukraine in 1946  Stalin believed Khrushchev was only concerned of Ukrainian people, and forgetting of the rest of the Soviet Union

5.  September 1953- Became first secretary of the Communist Party  Eliminated competitors (Beria, head of the secret police; Malenkov, Stalin’s successor as Premier of the Soviet Union)  Denounced Stalin’s reign at the 20 th Party Congress in 1956  Implemented De-Stalinization, the liberation of the Soviet Union  Resources transported from heavy industry to consumer goods  Controls over workers eased  Standard of living in Soviet Union rose substantially  Censorship relaxed, publication of One day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich  Officially became Soviet Prime Minister in 1958, ensured total power

6.  Hungary believed De-Stalinization would bring independence  Hungarian leader Imre Nagy began reforming his state (Removing media control, encouraging political and economic debate, free elections)  Khrushchev grew apprehensive; ordered the Red Army into Hungary in 1956, killing twenty thousand and replacing Nagy with Soviet loyalist

7.  Khrushchev planned on attending 1960 Paris Summit Conference; withdrew after U-2 American spy plane crashed in Soviet Union  September 1962- Soviets began building surface-to-air missiles launch sites on Cuban coast  Soviet ships also appeared on shore  Aroused American fear of nearby nuclear weapons  Soviet vessels stopped upon seeing American blockade (U.S. ready to attack if Soviets did not turn around or halt)  Khrushchev and Kennedy agreed to dismantle Soviet missiles if America would not invade Cuba

8.  Communist Party tremendously upset over failed Cuban missile crisis  Agricultural failures  Khrushchev peacefully forced out of office in 1964  Lived happily ever after until death in 1971