LECTURE 8  KEY TERMS  
COLD WAR ESCALATION (KHRUSHCHEV VS. KENNEDY)  1960-1962   

Konrad Adenauer

ICBM

IRBM

Berlin Crisis 1959

McMahon Act (Atomic Energy Act 1946)

"dual key” provisions

Hallstein Doctrine

Walther Ulbricht

Camp David Conference 1959

“spirit of Camp David”

Quemoy and Matsu Islands crisis

The Great Leap Forward

“revisionism” 

Sino-Soviet Schism

Mao's "cult of personality"

U-2 Incident

Francis Gary Powers

Paris Summit Conference

Fidel Castro

Fulgencio Batista

Che Guevara 

the barbudos

Operation Mongoose

Operation ZR/Rifle and AM/Lash

John F. Kennedy

Kennedy Nixon Television Debates

bomber gap

missile gap

IRBMs in Turkey

Operation Zapata

Bay of Pigs

Vienna Summit

Berlin Wall

Tsar Bomba

Operation Northwoods

October Missile Crisis 1962 (Cuban Missile Crisis)
 

LINKS

CIA Website on Berlin Crisis


Church Committee Hearings
(United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, 1975)