First steps toward détente
Subtitle: American diplomacy in the Berlin crisis, 1958-1963
By: Richard D. Williamson
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780739168806; 9780739168813
Subjects: Berlin Wall, Berlin, Germany, 1961-1989; Foreign relations; International status
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : first steps to détente; title: Prologue : the US, USSR, and Berlin, 1953-1958; title: "A free city" : Khrushchev's November proposals, Allied response, and a foreign minister's conference, November 1958-May 1959; title: "Seeking a summit" : Khrushchev's US visit, Western heads of state meeting, the U-2 incident, and the Paris Summit, June 1959-December 1960; title: "Vienna & the Wall" : Kennedy's first months, Vienna Summit, the Acheson plan, and the Berlin Wall, January-August 1961; title: "Salami tactics" : Allied collapse, Kennedy's private approach, and showdown at Checkpoint Charlie, September-December 1961; title: "Vital interests" : Thompson-Gromyko in Moscow, Rusk-Gromyko in Geneva, and Rusk-Dobrynin in Washington, Geneva ENDC sessions, and Soviet missiles in Cuba, January-August 1962; title: "A slippery slope" : new harassment in Berlin, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Allied estrangement, and the limited test ban treaty, September 1962-November 1963; title: Summary : American diplomacy in the Berlin crisis.