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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
This article reexamines Anglo-American relations in light of the Berlin crisis during the Kennedy years. The Berlin crisis has been extensively studied, especially after the 1990s when newly declassified materials shed new light on the incident. Using archival sources of the former Soviet bloc countries, recent works have closely explored Khrushchev's motivation for provoking such a conflict in Central Europe, while revealing the dynamics of alliance politics between the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic (GDR).1 On the Western side, while focusing mainly on American and West German decision making, many studies point out that the major Western powers-the United States, Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG)-disagreed on how to handle the Berlin crisis.
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