Cold War Stalemate 3
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- Cold War Stalemate
- Paris Summit May 1960
- Khrushchev; deal over Berlin & prohibition of nuclear weapons in the Pacific.
- He also wanted a ban on nuclear weapons in Germany.
- China refused to consider itself bound by any agreement it was not involved with.
- Summit collapsed when American U2 spy plane had been shot down over Soviet Union.
- Khrushchev; deal over Berlin & prohibition of nuclear weapons in the Pacific.
- Kennedy's Election
- His agenda stopped peaceful coexistence. Wanted build-up of NATO forces.
- Increased defence budget and promised more flexible conventional forces.
- Favoured expansion of USA's nuclear arsenal and submarine force.
- Refused to compromise on Berlin's status. Berlin symbol of Cold War confrontation.
- Berlin Wall 1961
- Soviet troops and East German police began to seal off East Berlin from West Berlin.
- Dramatically slowed down loss of skilled East Germans and eventually brought it to a complete halt.
- Trapped East Germans in a communist state.
- West took no action to stop the wall being built.
- Paris Summit May 1960
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