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Index
Abel, Elie
Acheson, Dean
Berlin strategy
Berlin strategy, Schlesinger’s alternative to
contempt for Joseph Kennedy
on Cuban invasion
friendship with Adenauer
influence over Kennedy
on Kennedy’s leadership ability
on military buildup and response in Germany
on nuclear preparedness
on Soviet policy
suspicion of Khrushchev
Adenauer, Konrad
appearance in Berlin
appeasement of Soviet Union
on Cuban Missile Crisis
distrust of Kennedy
on East German refugees
election victory
with Johnson in Texas
on Kennedy’s concessions to Khrushchev
Kennedy’s contempt for
on Nixon’s election defeat (1960)
opposition to Kennedy–Khrushchev negotiations
personality
political standing
prisoner-of-war negotiations with Khrushchev
resignation from office and death
reunification goal
on Sino–Soviet alliance
on U.S. Berlin policy
as West German chancellor
West German NATO membership
Adzhubei, Alexei
Albertz, Heinrich
Allies
access rights in Berlin
four-power agreements
impact of Bay of Pigs failure on
inaction on border closure
indecision on Berlin issue
troops in West Berlin
See also de Gaulle, Charles; Macmillan, Harold; NATO
Alphand, Hervé
Alsop, Stewart
Amrehn, Franz
Anderson, George Whelan, Jr.
Andropov, Yuri
Aron, Raymond
Baker, Russell
Bay of Pigs invasion
Acheson on
demonstration of Kennedy’s weakness
failure of mission
impact on Allied confidence
Kennedy’s acknowledgment of error
Khrushchev on
linking to Berlin issue
miscalculations and oversights
plan
pretext of U.S. noninvolvement
Beria, Lavrentiy
Berlin
four-power agreements
Potsdam accord
Soviet occupation
Stalin’s blockade
See also East Berlin; West Berlin
Berlin Airlift
Berlin Wall. See East German border closure
Berliner Morgenpost
Bild-Zeitung
Bissell, Richard
Bohlen, Charles “Chip”
on Khrushchev’s Berlin position
on potential for nuclear war
on Soviet–German prisoner-of-war exchange
Soviet policy deliberations
stance on Berlin issue
Bolle, Eberhard
Bolshakov, Georgi
on Checkpoint Charlie tensions
as Khrushchev–Kennedy intermediary
on upcoming Vienna Summit
border closure. See East German border closure
Bowles, Chester
Brandt, Friedrich
Brandt, Willy
at Adenauer’s eighty-fifth-birthday celebration
election campaign
letter to Kennedy on border closure
meeting with Kennedy
on Vienna Summit
Brentano di Tremezzo, Heinrich von
Britain. See Macmillan, Harold
Bruce, David
Brunzel, Klaus-Detlef
Bundy, McGeorge
Berlin deliberations
on Clay’s appointment to Berlin
on Cuban invasion
on Cuban Missile Crisis
on Johnson’s mission to Berlin
on Kennedy–Khrushchev secret correspondence
on Kennedy’s Berlin speech
on Kissinger
Soviet policy considerations
war planning
warning about start of nuclear holocaust
Burke, Arleigh
Campbell, David
Castro, Fidel. See Cuba
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