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The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History (Hardcover)
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The Vienna Summit and Its Importance in International History (Hardcover)
Series: The Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series
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At the beginning of June 1961, the tensions of the Cold War were
supposed to abate as both sides sought a resolution. The two most
important men in the world, John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev,
met for a summit in Vienna. Yet the high hopes were disappointed.
Within months the Cold War had become very hot: Khrushchev built
the Berlin Wall and a year later he sent missiles to Cuba to
threaten the United States directly. Despite the fact that the
Vienna Summit yielded barely any tangible results, it did lead to
some very important developments. The superpowers came to see for
the first time that there was only one way to escape from the
atomic hell of their respective arsenals: dialogue. The "peace
through fear" and the "hotline" between Washington and Moscow
prevented an atomic confrontation. Austria successfully
demonstrated its new role as neutral state and host when Vienna
became a meeting place in the Cold War. In The Vienna Summit and
Its Importance in International History international experts use
new Russian and Western sources to analyze what really happened
during this critical time and why the parties had a close shave
with catastrophe.
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