HIST 011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 51: Fidel Castro, Grandfather Clause, Nikita Khrushchev
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Khrushchev gave the west six months to move troops out of west berlin. Uy. s refused to yield eisenhower invited to camp david and the two agreed to put off the crisis and have another summit meeting. U2 spy plane shot down over soviet russia. Multiple flights used find out about soviet missile project. Caused bad feelings with the soviets and caused khrushchev to walk out on the. Eisenhower took full responsibility for the flights. He nationalized american owned business and properties in cuba. Castro turned to soviet russia and revealed that he was a marxist left cia trained anticommunist team up to kennedy. Eisenhower claimed credit for checking communist aggression and keeping peace without loss of american lives. Started the long relaxing progress between soviet russia and the u. s first arms limitation by suspending above ground nuclear testing. In his farewell address eisenhower spoke out against the negative impact of the.
