Even with Nikita Khrushchev's Desire to Improve Relations with the West

question 26

Multiple Choice

Even with Nikita Khrushchev's desire to improve relations with the West and reduce tensions,military events occasionally escalated almost to the point of war,as in 1962,when:

• A)the United States installed a new generation of intercontinental missiles in Turkey.
• B)a Chinese military unit,with U.S.approval,crossed into Siberia and declared it free and independent of the Soviet Union.
• C)a U.S.nuclear submarine secretly entered the Soviet port of Minsk and was captured as it attempted to leave.
• D)the Soviet Union attempted to install intermediate-range ballistic missiles and other offensive military equipment in Cuba.
• E)the United States attempted to destroy the Berlin Wall by planting explosives in secret tunnels under Checkpoint Charlie.

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