WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Khrushchev finally liberated millions of peasants; by his order the Soviet government gave them identifications, passports, and thus allowed them to move out of poor villages to big cities. Massive housing construction, known as khrushchevkas, were undertaken during the 1950s and 1960s.

Detailed explanation-2: -During his rule, Khrushchev stunned the communist world with his denunciation of his predecessor Joseph Stalin’s crimes, and embarked on a policy of de-Stalinization with his key ally Anastas Mikoyan. He sponsored the early Soviet space program and enactment of moderate reforms in domestic policy.

Detailed explanation-3: -The INF Treaty was a bilateral agreement between the US and USSR. It was the first treaty to reduce nuclear arms instead of creating an arms ceiling.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Cold War: Containment By the time World War II ended, most American officials agreed that the best defense against the Soviet threat was a strategy called “containment.”