| | Leaders | The wider Cold War |
Hungary, 1956 | Stalin had died in 1953Khrushchev had emerged as the Soviet Union’s leaderKhrushchev gave his ‘Secret Speech’ in 1956Eisenhower was re-elected President in 1956 with a healthy majorityKhrushchev visits America in 1959 | Krushchev instigated ‘peaceful coexistence’But the Warsaw Pact had been signed in 1955 after West Germany joins NATOThe Suez Crisis, 1956 |
Berlin, 1961 | Kennedy elected later in 1960America getting embroiled in Vietnam | U2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union, 1960A summit between Khrushchev and Eisenhower in Paris collapses before it begins |
Czech4oslovakia, 1968 | Kennedy assassinated in 1963 and Johnson succeeds him as President. Johnson wins the 1964 electionBrezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev in 196 | America now fully engaged in Vietnam with little sign of success |
