Nikita Khrushchev: Timeline

1894   Born

1953   After an all-night dinner with Soviet Union Soviet Union

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 interior minister Lavrenty Beria and future premiers Georgi Malenkov, Nikolai Bulganin Nikolai Bulganin

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 and Nikita Khrushchev, Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin

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 collapses, having suffered a stroke Stroke

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 that paralyzed the right side of his body.

1953   Nikita Khrushchev becomes head of the Soviet Soviet Union

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 Central Committee.

1956   Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin Joseph Stalin

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 as a "cult of personality."

1958   Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union

1959   At the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow Moscow

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, US vice-president Richard Nixon Richard Nixon

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 and Nikita Khrushchev have a "kitchen debate."

1960   March 23 — Nikita Khrushchev meets Charles De Gaulle Charles de Gaulle

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 in Paris Paris

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.

1960   May 16 — Nikita Khrushchev demands an apology from U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower Dwight D. Eisenhower

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 for U-2 spy plane flights over the Soviet Union Soviet Union

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, thus ending a Big Four summit in Paris Paris

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.

1960   October 12 — Cold War Cold War

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: Nikita Khrushchev pounds his shoe on a table at a United Nations United Nations

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 General Assembly meeting, to protest discussion of Soviet Union Soviet Union

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 policy toward Eastern Europe Eastern Europe

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.

1961   John F. Kennedy John F. Kennedy

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 and Nikita Khrushchev meet during 2 days in Vienna Vienna

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. They discuss nuclear tests, disarmament Disarmament

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 and Germany Germany

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.

1962   Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union Soviet Union

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 leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he has ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba Cuba

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.

1964   President Lyndon Johnson in New York and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow Moscow

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 announce simultaneously plans to cut back production of materials for making nuclear weapon Nuclear weapon

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s.

1964   15 - Nikita Khrushchev is deposed as leader of the Soviet Union; Leonid Brezhnev Leonid Brezhnev

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 and Alexei Kosygin assume power.

1971   Died