Geneva Conference July 18-23, 1955
- Eden, Premier Edgar Faure, Ike, Premier Bulganin
- but Adams, Dulles opposed: not to be "another Yalta"
- Ike proposed Nelson Rockefeller's Open Skies plan
Khru. secret speech at 20th Congress Feb. 1956
- de-Stalinization, "peaceful co-existence," "many roads to socialism"
Party Secretary Gomulka seeks independent Poland Oct. 20, 1956 - Nagy recognized as Prime Minister Oct. 29 but sought to leave the Warsaw Pact and Russian troops sent Nov. 3
- U.S. rhetoric of "liberation" & "rollback"
- balloon Project Focus caused air crash in Czeck 3/56
Vostok rocket launched 1st ICBM Aug. 26, 1957
- liquid fuel, multi-stage developed by Sergei Korilev
Lockheed's solid fuel Polaris, Raytheon's Hawk (Patriot)
- but AF's Atlas not ready - "missle gap" by critics
Sputnik I launched Oct. 4, 1957 - 184 lbs - 1st satellite
Sputnik II launched Nov. 3 - 1120 lbs - Laika, not Checkers
- Laika died in space - no landing of capsule
Ike's 3rd stroke Nov. 26, 1957
LBJ's Preparedness subcommittee investigation Nov. 28
Vanguard explodes at Cape Canaveral in live TV Dec. 6
Explorer I launched Jan. 31, 1958 - 31 lbs
NASA created July 16, began Mercury project using Atlas
Rockefeller and Gaither Reports 11/57 - like NSC-68
Life mag. story "Crisis in Education"
1958 - Year of Great Tests - Hardtack series until Aug. 22
midterm elections won by Democrats
next - Kitchen Debate
Sources:
- Beschloss, Michael R. MAYDAY: Eisenhower, Khrushchev and the U-2 Affair. New York: Harper, 1986.
- Crankshaw, Edward. Khrushchev: A Career. New York: Viking, 1966.
revised 4/5/02 by Schoenherr | Cold War Policies
