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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

Chayes, Abram

Checkpoint Charlie

military escorts for Allied civilians

restrictions on Allied crossings

as sole crossing point for Westerners

U.S.–Soviet confrontation at

Chen Yi

China

challenge to Soviet communist leadership

economic assistance to East Germany

on Khrushchev’s renunciation of Stalinism

Mao’s strained relations with Khrushchev

Soviet assistance to

Chou En-lai

Chuikov, Vasily

Clarke, Bruce C.

Army command posting

Berlin deliberations

constraint of Clay’s operations

on Johnson’s Berlin visit

Clay, Lucius D.

appointment to Berlin

Autobahn patrols

Berlin Airlift

on Berlin strategy

border escorts

Checkpoint Charlie confrontation

defiance of border procedures

East Berlin tour

on importance of West Berlin’s defense

with Kennedy in Berlin

on Kennedy’s resolve in Cuban Missile Crisis

morale-building mission to Berlin

plans to break through Wall

stance on Soviet Union

Steinstücken defense

Clifford, Clark

Couch, Virgil

Cuba

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