showed a great deal more flexibility in foreign policy than his predecessors. He arrived at an agreement with Yugoslavian President Tito in 1955 after he had broken with Stalin in 1948. There was a similar situation with Hungary in 1956 when troops were ordered by Khruschev to invade Hungary to repress an uprising that went against the political theorem of Communism. When, in 1958 he challenged the status quo of Berlin so that it would all be incorporated into East Berlin, the West would not yield to his demands. He thus authorized the building of the Berlin Wall. Khruschev became known for his unconventional behavior such as an incident whereas he banged his shoe on a table at the United Nations in 1960 in New York. As he continued to revolutionize leadership in the Soviet Union, he became more open to relations with the West. He met with President Kennedy, visited the United Kingdom, with other things. Perhaps his most daring move was his holdout in Cuba during the missile crisis in 1962. He brought the world near to nuclear war during this time by refusing to withdraw. He finally gave in at the demand of President John F. Kennedy. His ways proved to be a great contrast to Stalin, being an extravagant and a gambler, yet this contrasting nature seemed to bring about positive change in the Soviet Union. Many people lost faith in his leadership over the years due to incidents such as the Cuban Missile Crisis, poor harvests in the newly cultivated lands of Kazakhstan and his division of industrial and agricultural hierarchies. By 1964 he had alienated all the elite in the Union. While on vacation in the Crimea in October of 1964, his opponents removed him from power and many of his critics took his place including his former protg Leonid Brezhnev. The three main people that planned the stripping of his position of party secretary and premier were Leonid Brezhnev, Nikolay Podgorny and Alexandr Shelepin, who was head of t...
