First steps toward détente American diplomacy in the Berlin crisis, 1958-1963 /
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : first steps to détente
- Prologue : the US, USSR, and Berlin, 1953-1958
- "A free city" : Khrushchev's November proposals, Allied response, and a foreign minister's conference, November 1958-May 1959
- "Seeking a summit" : Khrushchev's US visit, Western heads of state meeting, the U-2 incident, and the Paris Summit, June 1959-December 1960
- "Vienna & the Wall" : Kennedy's first months, Vienna Summit, the Acheson plan, and the Berlin Wall, January-August 1961
- "Salami tactics" : Allied collapse, Kennedy's private approach, and showdown at Checkpoint Charlie, September-December 1961
- "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
- "A slippery slope" : new harassment in Berlin, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Allied estrangement, and the limited test ban treaty, September 1962-November 1963
- Summary : American diplomacy in the Berlin crisis.