1. Biography of Nikita Khrushchev
• Born on April 5, 1894
• Died on September
11, 1971
• Born in Kalinovka
• Died in Moscow, Russia

2. Achievements of Nikita Khrushchev
• One of the main achievements of Nikita
Khrushchev was his relaxation of the political
climate, in particular, censorship.
• An achievement of Khrushchev’s tenure in
office was when the Soviet Union launched
the first satellite into orbit; this made many
other countries fearful of the Soviet’s
air/space power.

3. Nikita Khrushchev’s Early Life
• Khrushchev was the
grandson of a serf and the
son of a coal miner.
• He joined the Red Army in
1919 and fought against the
Whites in the Ukraine
during the Civil War.
• Khrushchev remained
actively involved in the
Communist Party; he was
invited to the 14th Party in
Moscow, Russia.

4. Nikita Khrushchev’s Early Life
• He then became the secretary of the Ukraine
Communist Party and was ordered by Joseph
Stalin to carry out great purges.
• Khrushchev earned the rank of Lieutenant
General, he was ordered to organize guerilla
warfare in the Ukraine against the Germans.
• He came into conflict with Stalin; Stalin accused
him of, “concentrating too much on feeding the
people living in the Ukraine rather than exporting
food to the rest of the Soviet Union.”

5. Nikita Khrushchev During the Cold War
• Khrushchev was the Prime
Minister of the Soviet Union
when the Cuban Missal Crisis
happened in 1963.
• He attacked Stalin and the
“cult of personality” he had
developed at the 20th Party
Congress, this was the boldest
move for power.
• Khrushchev stormed out of an
international meeting in
Geneva; this left all the other
leaders sitting without the
leader of the world’s second
most powerful nation.

6. Nikita Khrushchev During the Cold War
• He was mad that the United States
had placed their B52 bombers in
Turkey; when Khrushchev saw an
opportunity to put nuclear missals in
Cuba, he did.
• Khrushchev gave no outside look that
he was backing down from John F.
Kennedy; when he did, his political
position was greatly weakened.
• His colleagues in Moscow were highly
concerned about the relationship
between the USSR and Communist
China.
• In October 1964, Khrushchev was put
out of office; he spent the rest of his
years in retirement, he then died in
1971.