First page Back Continue Last page Overview Graphics
Stalin dies suddenly in1953
- Leads to a power vacuum in the USSR
- Malenkov then Krushchev taking over
Lead to a slight thawing of Cold War tensions for the next 5 years or so.
- Visited Tito,
- allowed 16 members to join UN,
- agreed to leave military bases in Finland,
- Korean War ends,
- Austrian Treaty