Khrushchev's visit to the USA in 1959.

In the second half of the 50s gradually began to expand contacts between the U.S. and the USSR in the field of science, art, culture. The first steps in this direction demonstrated the possibility and necessity of further development of Soviet-American relations. The issue of the need to expand mutually beneficial trade relations between the U.S. and the USSR was particularly acute. However, the trend towards the development of U.S.-Soviet relations began to break through, overcoming the rubble of the "cold war" and fierce resistance from reactionary circles that were associated with the military-industrial complex. An encouraging factor was the fact that contacts at a high government level were possible. In the summer of 1959, the Soviet Union was visited by US Vice-President Richard Nixon. An important event in the development of Soviet-American relations was the official visit of Chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers N. S. Khrushchev to the USA in September 1959.