effort to put an end to the Suez Crisis. His argument was that since the United States and the Soviet Union were the two superpowers, it was their implied responsibility to keep the peace on Earth. The Soviets felt that cooperation between the superpowers would fortify the United Nations and thus, help maintain peace. This excerpt is evidence of Nikita Kruschev’s “peaceful coexistence” foreign policy towards the United States at the time. It is also an illustration of the Soviet Union’s bias in the Suez Crisis since the central nation involved was a newly established ally. Bulganin’s letter produced only a reply from the White House and no results as the United States refused to intervene militarily.In the fourth excerpt, “White House Statement in Reply to Bulganin’s Letter”, the United States felt that the letter was intended to distract attention from another foreign affairs debacle that the Soviet Union was immersed in, the bloody Hungarian Rebellion of 1956. This excerpt brought to light to the fact that the Red Army was disregarding the rights of Hungarian citizens in a attempt to put a swift end to Imre Nagy’s attempt at liberation from the communist Soviet Union. As for the proposed Soviet-American unification of forces, the United States eliminated that possibility emphatically. Citing the Soviet Union’s lack of compliance of the United Nation’s decisions on the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Rebellion, the United States made it clear that it would not validate suggestions from the Soviet Union regarding the Suez Crisis. This excerpt teeters on the edge of hyperbole in the way that Soviet “dissention” in the United Nations was portrayed, almost implying that the Soviet Union was against peace in the region. Eventually, it was not the United Nations that put an end to the crisis. French and British military forces withdrew form the region becaus...
