The Khrushchev Connection Who Ordered the Construction of the Berlin Wall? Historians have long argued over whether East German leader Walter Ulbricht or his Soviet counterpart Nikita Khrushchev ...

The Berlin Wall stood for 10,316 days ... On June 10, 1961, Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev presented President John F. Kennedy with an ultimatum: The Western Allies must leave their zones ...

Premier Nikita Khrushchev considered West Berlin "a bone ... on an escape tunnel under the Berlin Wall. The following June, the president would visit the Wall for the first time, and famously ...

In Vienna two months earlier, there had been a confrontation with Nikita Khrushchev over Berlin ... Kennedy and the Berlin Wall, by Richard Smyser, who was in the U.S. Mission in Berlin then ...

Nikita Khrushchev had become leader of the Soviet Union in 1956. In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that ...

To put over his plan to swallow Berlin, after all the buildup and the bluster, Nikita Khrushchev called the first press conference of his premiership. Looking relaxed and chipper, and sporting a ...

One evening in October 1962, Nikita Khrushchev attended a performance ... Kennedy quarreled in Vienna; and Khrushchev built the Berlin Wall, then dispatched nuclear missiles to Cuba before ...

However, Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev thought the inauguration ... Then on August 3, 1961, the Berlin Wall suddenly went up—much to Kennedy’s relief. “Why would Khrushchev put up ...

Kennedy and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (which he covered ... stumbled into dangerous miscalculations about Berlin and Cuba. Soon an ugly wall would be running through the divided German ...