into the Warsaw Pact.

As Communism spread, the West became
increasingly nervous. In 1960, an American U2 spy plane was shot down,
but long talks at the Four Powers Summit enabled the East and West to divide up
the world into agreed upon spheres of influence. The Cuban-Turkish
Missile Crisis tested the agreement, which brought about suspicious but
peaceful coexistence as both sides removed weapons from near the other's
border. The twentieth century continued, and the Soviet economy stagnated
under conservative rule and eventually gave way to introductions of minor
capitalism through East Germany and Poland. Similar experiments went
forward in China after the death of Mao. Liberalization proved to be beneficial
for the Communist nations, who thrived while the economies of the West
struggled to recuperate from the recessions of the 1970s. Massive
expenditures in governments such as Britain andAmerica proved beneficial for a
time in the 1980s, but, by the 1990s, attention shifted to the Communists, who
by 2010 were the world economic leaders as the West attempted to repay its
massive tax capital.

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In reality, the "Anti-Party
Group," as they were dubbed by Khrushchev during speeches in his defense,
did not wait to gain support from the military. Their action to remove
Khrushchev was supported in the Presidium, but the meeting of the Central
Committee supported him, especially Zhukov, who gave an affirming speech that
the military backed Khrushchev.The
political careers of Khrushchev's opponents were ended as Khrushchev went on to
become Premier; Molotov was sent as ambassador to Mongolia, Malenkov was made
director of a hydroelectric plant, and Kaganovich became director of a potassium
factory.Later, Khrushchev would be
overthrown by conservative elements in 1964 under Leonid Brezhnev.