Khrushchev and the Showdown in Cuba

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NAMES IN ORDER OF PRESENTATION

 

Nikita Sergyevich Khrushchev

Kursk Province

Bulganin

“separate paths to socialism”

Twentieth Party Congress

Great Leap Forward

Sino-Soviet Split

Council of Economic Advisers

Walter Heller, J. Kenneth Galbraith, c. Douglas Dillon

Laffer Curve, MIT

Telstar Project

Dean Rusk, Robert S. McNamara, McGeorge Bundy

Peace Corps, Alliance for Progress, “Green Berets”

Robert Kennedy and Anatoly Dobrynin

Pacem in Terris

Mutually Assured Destruction

Cardinal Giovanni Baptista Montini

Cardinal Agostino Casaroli & “Ostpolitik”

Cardinal Wyszynski of Warsaw

Gdansk shipyards

Cardinal Mindszenty

Cardinal Karol Wojtyła