L97 IAS 3680 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Georgy Malenkov, Economy Of The Soviet Union, Southeast Asia Treaty Organization

• School: WUSTL
• Department: International And Area Studies
• Course: L97 IAS 3680
• Professor: Professor Knapp

Document Summary

Lecture 05: new leaders and new looks: kruschev and eisenhower (1953- There was an opportunity to improve relations between the us and. Ussr but that window closed after time as both sides failed to address uprisings in europe and the accumulation of nuclear weapons. This window closed by the end of the 1950"s over a series of issues that they failed to manage. Eisenhower was elected president of the us in 1953, holding the role for two terms until 1961. Krushchev emerged as part of the new soviet leadership in 1953 and solidified his power in 1955, until he was ousted by breshchev in 1964. There was a growing bloc of non-aligned nations (those who did not want to join the west or the east) in the global south. Immense power of mass destruction that altered the war. Robbed the us and ussr of any real meaningful victory. Both leaders developed new cold war policies that would affect the global.