Relații româno-americane în cel mai dificil an al președintelui John F. Kennedy (1962)
The Romanian-American Relations in the Most Difficult Year of President John F. Kennedy (1962)

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to present the Romanian-American relations from the year of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962), through the prism of some important documents compiled by the Romanian specialists from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The normalization of the Romanian-American relations, started in 1960 with the signing of the financial agreement, progressed with small but important steps, in the first years of the seventh decade of the 20th century. Pressed in different ways by the Kremlin leader, Nikita Khrushchev, Romania chose to detach itself a little from the socialist bloc, in order to look for partners in the West. Despite the weight of the international crisis of 1962, communist Romania remained determined in the direction of friendly relations with the United States and good cooperation projects. Weakening dependence on the Soviet Union, the need for new technologies, and the dream of entering the US market with goods forced PCR leaders to give more importance to the national interest than to the ideological interest.

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