BERLIN, March 8--Premier Nikita Khrushchev pledged tonight to work for an end to the cold war if the Western powers agree to withdraw their troops from West Berlin. The Soviet leader told a ...

Nikita Khrushchev is seen addressing the ... Frustrated by the mass exodus of East Germans to the West through Berlin, Khrushchev authorized the construction of the Berlin Wall.

Fifty summers ago President Dwight Eisenhower, hoping to resolve a mounting crisis over the fate of Berlin, invited Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to a summit meeting at Camp David. Ike had no ...

One evening in October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev attended a performance ... Kennedy quarreled in Vienna; and Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall, then dispatched nuclear missiles to Cuba before ...

Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/jfk-red-threat/ Kennedy believed his first diplomatic meeting with Nikita Khrushchev would be a lesson in ...

But Kennedy did not want to appear afraid to face down Nikita Khrushchev. The Soviet premier was making noises about annexing democratic West Berlin and actively aiding anti-colonial movements in ...

Pie Chamberlain: The great showman of the East, Nikita Khrushchev is replaced by man of less color and vitality, the generation of clerks and technocrats. Khrushchev succeeded Georgy Malenkov as ...

A fierce anti-communist, Nixon escorted the Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev through various ... the Cold War was at a ...

The man who was dubbed “Hurricane Nikita” was a bundle of contradictions ... mass exodus of East Germans to the West through Berlin, Khrushchev authorized the construction of the Berlin ...