Mon Nov 23 · 4:30pm
U.S. Policy Against Soviet-Bloc Trade: The Kennedy Administration After the Cuban Missile Crisis
James G. Hershberg, professor of history at George Washington University, on how the Kennedy administration, in the months after the Cuban Missile Crisis, tried to stop Brazil opening new trade ties with the Soviet bloc, threatening sanctions unless Brazil cancelled a deal to buy helicopters from Poland's Communist government. Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Project at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, moderates.