Die Krisen des Kalten Krieges
Die Krisen des Kalten Krieges
Cold War crises
TextOst-West-Beziehungen
Conditions for use of the 'red telephone'
TextThe US memorandum of action for national security n°255 describes the conditions for use of the famous 'red telephone', the direct and secure line between the White House in Washington and the Kremlin in Moscow, which would have been used, in the context of the Cold War, to warn of any nuclear attack between the two superpowers.
US position during the Vienna meeting between John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev (25 May 1961)
TextThis document, taken from US archives, sets out the position and the attitude to be adopted by the US President, John F. Kennedy, during his meeting with Nikita Khrushchev, First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, in Vienna on 3 and 4 June 1961.
John F. Kennedy and Nikita Khrushchev in Vienna (1961)
ImageOn 3 and 4 June 1961, in Vienna, the US President, John F. Kennedy, meets Nikita Khrushchev, the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), although this meeting does not end the tension between the two blocs.
'Chruschtschow und Kennedy in Wien' von Yves Courrière (RTL, 3. Juni 1961)
Audio extractAm 3. und 4. Juni 1961 treffen sich der amerikanische Präsident John F. Kennedy und der Erste Sekretär der Kommunistischen Partei der Sowjetunion (KpdSU) Nikita Chruschtschow in Wien in einem Versuch, die Spannungen zwischen den zwei Supermächten zu verringern.
Interview with the President John F. Kennedy to Izvestia (November 25, 1961)
TextOn 25 November 1961, US President, John F. Kennedy, gives an interview to the editor-in-chief of the Soviet newspaper Izvestia. In this interview, the President gives his views on relations between the Soviet Union and the USA, and the crises of the Cold War.
Cartoon by Behrendt on East-West relations (1962)
Image'Khrushchev: the door to negotiations remains open'. In 1962, the cartoonist Fritz Behrendt takes an ironical look at the real will of the Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev, to establish dialogue between East and West.
Cartoon by Abu on Arms Race (11 March 1962)
Image‘The arms race'. In March 1962, in the British Sunday newspaper The Observer, the cartoonist Abu condemns the suicidal arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Letter from the Luxembourg Ambassador to Moscow to Pierre Grégoire (Moscow, 23 October 1968)
TextOn 23 October 1968, the Luxembourg Ambassador to Moscow sends a letter to the Luxembourg Foreign Minister, Pierre Grégoire, in which he refers to the risks of a return to the Cold War.