U.S. Policy Against Soviet-Bloc Trade Post Cuban Missile Crisis

In late 1961, in the wake of the Cuban missile crisis, the Kennedy administration sought to prevent Brazil from opening new trade ties with the Soviet bloc. U.S. officials threatened to impose sanctions against Brazil unless it canceled a deal to acquire helicopters from Poland's Communist regime.

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James G. Hershberg, Professor of History, George Washington University

Moderator

Mark Kramer, Director, Cold War Studies Project, Davis Center

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