Soviet Communist Party on Hungary Rebellion Following are notes from a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee six days before Soviet tanks entered Budapestin 1956 to stop the uprising in Hungary.
Khrushchev Denounces Stalinism On February 25, 1956, Khrushchev denounced the excesses of Stalinism before the 20th Party Congress of the U.S.S.R.
Irme Nagy's Last Address As fighting raged throughout Budapest during Hungary's 1956 revolt against Soviet control, Prime Minister Irme Nagy broadcast the following message only hours before he was arrested by the Soviets.
U.S. Response to Sputnik Intentions Twelve days after the successful launch of Sputnik on October 4, 1957 by the Soviets, U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles held the following news conference to express the reaction of the U.S. government to this historic event.
Soviet Note to the United States On May 10, 1960, the Soviet Union sent the following note to the United States outlining the evidence used to discredit the U.S. explanation of Gary Francis Powers' U-2 flight as a meterological mission.
U.S. Embassy's Analysis of U-2 Incident In the days after the U-2 plane was captured by the Soviets, the U.S. government struggled to hide the motive behind the plane's mission. In this telegram, U.S. Embassy officials brief the secretary of state on the mood in Moscow.
Khrushchev-Ulbricht Meeting on Berlin Situation Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev met with East German leader Walter Ulbricht on November 30, 1960 to discuss possible courses of action to stem the flow of East Germans to the West.
Kennedy's Berlin Crisis Speech On July 25, 1961, President Kennedy gave the following speech months after Khrushchev had secretly begun planning to build the Berlin Wall and just days before the border was closed between East and West Berlin. In the speech, Kennedy stressed the need for NATO countries to hold onto West Berlin.
Khrushchev Speech on the Berlin Crisis In the following August 4, 1961 speech Khrushchev displays growing concerns with the new Kennedy government and the possibility of a war beginning with confrontation in Berlin -- and possibly ending in nuclear destruction.