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Our historical documentary series on the history of the Cold War continues with a video on the debate between Khrushchev and Nixon, known as the Kitchen Debate. How the RAND Corporation created American strategy: https://youtu.be/J1mH_O7MzJk The Nuclear Wannabes: Sweden, Brazil and Argentina: https://youtu.be/1LpL6Q1s7TA Israel: the Officially Unofficial Nuclear State: https://youtu.be/dcXSkpRDp2k Taiwan Under the Kuomintang Dictatorship: https://youtu.be/nGYzXNpQclo What Happened to the German and Japanese POWs?: https://youtu.be/JLK1xQV9B84 Operation Paperclip: https://youtu.be/17cNgMpBiWw German Expulsions: https://youtu.be/zyWx4p4hiaY Soviet Education System: https://youtu.be/AD_JwbivtMA How Khrushchev Fed the Soviet People: https://youtu.be/qIZDa7ZcUhE How CIA Used Art Against the USSR: https://youtu.be/EPmomdCzomA How Nuclear Deterrence Theory developed: https://youtu.be/UHIsdbvsuOY America's Secret Nuclear Disaster: https://youtu.be/iXSSCdlTst4 Support us on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/TheColdWar, Youtube membership https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCGvq-qmjFmmMD4e-PLQqGg/join ✔ Merch store ► https://teespring.com/stores/thecoldwar ✔ Patreon ► https://www.patreon.com/thecoldwar ✔ Facebook ► https://www.facebook.com/thecoldwartv ✔ Instagram ►http://www.instagram.com/thecoldwartv #ColdWar #America #khruschev #nixon #kitchen #ussr #usa **SOURCES** Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann (2009) The Kitchen Debate and Cold War Consumer Politics: A Brief History with Documents by Shane Hamilton and Sarah Phillips (2014) O’Mara, Margaret Pugh. “Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley.” Social Science History 29, no. 4 (2005): 555–566. https://www.jstor.org/stable/25162497. Radchenko, Sergey. “The Soviet Image of Kennedy During the Cuban Missile Crisis.” The Journal of Strategic Studies 30, no. 4-5 (2007): 691–724. https://www.jstor.org/stable/23416351. Weiler, Jonathan. “Ideology, Rhetoric, and ‘The Russian Idea’: The Redefinition of Russian National Identity in the 1990s.” World Affairs 161, no. 2 (1998): 76–89. https://www.jstor.org/stable/24912602. Oldenziel, Ruth. “Exporting the American Cold War Factory: Models, Workers, and Managers.” In Cold War Kitchen: Americanization, Technology, and European Users, edited by Ruth Oldenziel and Karin Zachmann, 165–189. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt6wp6mh.11. Reid, Susan E. “Who Will Beat Whom? Soviet Popular Reception of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, 1959.” Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History 9, no. 4 (2008): 855–904. https://www.jstor.org/stable/30036324. Nixon, Richard, and Nikita Khrushchev. “The Kitchen Debate.” Teaching American History. Last modified July 24, 1959. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/document/the-kitchen-debate/. Bill of Rights Institute. “The Nixon-Khrushchev Kitchen Debate.” Bill of Rights Institute. Accessed March 22, 2025. https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-nixonkhrushchev-kitchen-debate. Central Intelligence Agency. Memorandum of Conversation Between Vice President Nixon and Soviet Premier Khrushchev, Moscow, July 24, 1959. CIA Reading Room, July 24, 1959. https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/1959-07-24.pdf. Fennell, Taylor. “The ‘Kitchen Debate’ and Its Impact on U.S.-Soviet Relations.” The Cupola: Gettysburg College Student Scholarship. Gettysburg College, 2015. https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1387&context=student_scholarship.


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