The relations seemed to be cooling for the two opposing countries in the summer of 1959, when in June, The US granted Russia permission to put on a exhibition in New York. The Russians put up an traditional Russian house that would not look out of place in their country. While it did not feature gadgets, it was Russia’s chance to brag about and show off their space technology and gloat about the launch of Sputnik in 1957. This exhibition was part of a deal that was signed in January of 1958, that consisted of the establishment of activities that exposed the peoples of the United States and the USSR to each other to get mutual cultural understanding and to cool relations. It was almost a year later, in late 1958, that the two sides came to an
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He started at Washington DC, went up to New York to speak to the UN ( where his famous shoe smacking speech would happen a year later), to Pittsburgh to see union laborers picketing, Silicon Valley to see the IBM factory ( Where Khrush admired their cafeteria style dining), Hollywood (Where he would see behind the scenes of the film, “Can-Can” and have a fit about not being able to go to Disneyland, to Iowa to figure out how to grow corn in the Soviet Union, and back to Washington again to have peace talks with President …show more content…
His argument was based that he felt that the populations of the world could not feel safe due to frequent wars breaking out everywhere due to differing ideologies. Khrush even went as far as encouraging getting rid of nuclear weapons altogether, and instead of competing in destruction, competing in infrastructure instead. In retrospect, knowing what Khrush proposed and what occurred in the next 3 years, his words were haunting. The peace talks at Camp David at the end of the trip were productive, however it came to a stalemate and the Cold War still reigned on. However, even though the Cold War was on it’s last legs, it would have to wait until the following July when President Eisenhower was due to visit Moscow and one could assume that the Cold war would end right then and there. If the peace talks for Berlin were almost there in America, then when they met in Moscow, there was no doubt that the cold alliance between the bald eagle and sickle and hammer would be finally
He started at Washington DC, went up to New York to speak to the UN ( where his famous shoe smacking speech would happen a year later), to Pittsburgh to see union laborers picketing, Silicon Valley to see the IBM factory ( Where Khrush admired their cafeteria style dining), Hollywood (Where he would see behind the scenes of the film, “Can-Can” and have a fit about not being able to go to Disneyland, to Iowa to figure out how to grow corn in the Soviet Union, and back to Washington again to have peace talks with President …show more content…
His argument was based that he felt that the populations of the world could not feel safe due to frequent wars breaking out everywhere due to differing ideologies. Khrush even went as far as encouraging getting rid of nuclear weapons altogether, and instead of competing in destruction, competing in infrastructure instead. In retrospect, knowing what Khrush proposed and what occurred in the next 3 years, his words were haunting. The peace talks at Camp David at the end of the trip were productive, however it came to a stalemate and the Cold War still reigned on. However, even though the Cold War was on it’s last legs, it would have to wait until the following July when President Eisenhower was due to visit Moscow and one could assume that the Cold war would end right then and there. If the peace talks for Berlin were almost there in America, then when they met in Moscow, there was no doubt that the cold alliance between the bald eagle and sickle and hammer would be finally