Andre Gromyko was installed as Soviet Foreign Minister on February 17, 1957. Gromyko was called to foreign service in 1939 and began by serving under a policy of cooperation with the Nazis before Hitler's attack on Russia. After World War II he became an expert at Cold War diplomacy. Seen first as a hard liner, he shifted his positions as the times demanded. He served through three decades, surviving most of the Soviet leaders he worked for and most of the world leaders with whom he quarreled and negotiated.
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Gromyko becomes foreign minister
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This Week in History, Feb 17 - Feb 23
- Feb 17, 1801
- Deadlock over presidential election ends
- Feb 17, 1957
- Gromyko becomes foreign minister
- Feb 17, 1979
- China invades Vietnam
- Feb 18, 1856
- Know-Nothings convene in Philadelphia
- Feb 18, 1930
- Pluto discovered
- Feb 18, 1948
- De Valera resigns
- Feb 18, 1967
- J. Robert Oppenheimer dies
- Feb 19, 1473
- Copernicus born
- Feb 19, 1807
- Aaron Burr arrested for treason
- Feb 19, 1942
- Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066
- Feb 19, 1974
- Solzhenitsyn reunited with family
- Feb 20, 1725
- American colonists practice scalping
- Feb 20, 1962
- An American orbits earth
- Feb 20, 1986
- Chunnel plans announced
- Feb 21, 1848
- Marx publishes Manifesto
- Feb 21, 1885
- Washington Monument dedicated
- Feb 21, 1972
- Nixon in China
- Feb 22, 1819
- The U.S. acquires Spanish Florida
- Feb 22, 1847
- Battle of Buena Vista begins
- Feb 22, 1967
- Suharto takes full power in Indonesia
- Feb 22, 1968
- Tet Offensive ends
- Feb 23, 1954
- Children receive first polio vaccine
- Feb 23, 1981
- Spanish rebels storm Parliament
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