Nikita Khrushchev attempted to gain a foothold in the Western Hemisphere by attempting to install nuclear missiles in Cuba. This is known as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Cuba. He was behind the Cuban Missle Crisis.
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Cuba did.
I don't think you could call Khrushchev and Castro friends. More like allies with a common enemy. Khrushchev would have been the superior of the two as the leader of the Soviet Union and I think he would have looked upon Castro as a leader of a Soviet satellite nation. Castro hadn't been the leader of Cuba for very long when he forged his alliance with Khrushchev. Having Khrushchev as an ally would have given him some much needed power on the world stage and protected his position in Cuba. For Khrushchev 's part Cuba gave him a foothold off the coast of the United States which he would have considered valuable for the Soviet purposes.
I used a foothold to climb the mountain.
It meant that the Allies were able to gain a foothold on Europe via Normandy. This eventually led to the defeat of Hitler's Nazis Germany.
The Allies gained a foothold in Eastern Europe and would eventually liberate France from The Third Reich's control.
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The importance of D-Day in World War II, was that the Allied forces were able to gain a foothold on Normandy, France. From this beach-head, the Allies would eventually (with a great loss of life and several setbacks) eventually bring the war in Europe to an end with Germany's defeat.
The cast of Foothold on Antarctica - 1957 includes: Derek Williams as Himself - Commentator