Cold War 1956-84 Overview cards Flashcards
What speech did the leader after Stalin give- what did it do
Nikita Khruschev- Secret speech against Stalin
What process did Khrushchev start?
De-Stalinisation (1956)
What revolution happened as a result of desalinisation and when?
Poznan uprising (June 1956)
What did Poznan inspire?
Hungarian revolution
How many people died in Poznan vs Hungarian?
Poznan- 74
Hungarian- Over 4000
What was the fundamental difference between Poznan and Hungarian?
Poznan wanted more freedoms and liberty from USSR while Hungary wanted to leave the Warsaw pact
What other events were happening at same time as Hungarian?
US election
Suez crisis
Who was the leader that was executed after Hungary election?
Imre Nagy
What had happened in East Germany 1949-53?
- huge collectivisation
- industrialisation
How many ppl left East Germany to West
2.3 million
When was the Berlin uprising?
1953
What caused the Berlin uprising?
Ulbricht increasing production quotas so 400,000 people took to the streets
When was Prague Spring
1968
Difference in numbers leaving East Germany after and before wall
1961- 207,000 emmigrated
1962- 21,000
When was the Berlin Wall constructed?
Overnight on August 13th 1961
Causes of Prague Spring
Relaxation of censorship
What change in leader resulted in relaxing of Czech censorship
Novotony to Dubcek in 1968
What did Prague Spring want
More individual freedom from the USSR- but to remain communist and stay within the Warsaw pact
What did Dubcek order in Czechoslovakia after the Soviet invasion?
Passive resistance
How many people died in Prague Spring?
70
What were the consequences of Prague Spring?
Albania left the Warsaw Pact
Romania criticised the USSR
Brezhnev doctrine
Who replaced Dubcek
Husak
What did the Hungarian revolution bring an end to?
The Thaw
When did Detente begin and under which president was this their foreign policy
1969, Richard Nixon
What was the improving of US-China relations called
Panda- diplomacy
When did Nixon visit China and agree a series of rapprochements?
1972
When was the Non-prolifiterian treaty signed- what did it do
No transferring nuclear weapons to other countries. 1968
When were the SALTs- what does this stand for?
Strategic arms limitations talks
1970-72
What was German foreign policy with the ambition of reunification called?
Ostpolotik
What did the Moscow treaty do and when
FRG and USSR claimed no rights to GDR 1970
What did the Basic Treaty do and when?
Allow DRG Berliners to visit FRG, allowed postal relations- 1972
When were the Helsinki Accords? What was in each basket
Basket 1- Peace (Henry Kissinger managed to convince USSR to possibility of eventual change in borders)
Basket 2- Cooperation in science and economics
Basket 3- Cooperation of humanitarian
1972
Who was the leader of West Berlin who led Ostpolotiks?
Willy Brandt
What was agreed at SALT
5 year freeze agreed on construction of missile launchers
When was the Cuban missile crisis?
October 1962
Vietnam war
1955-75
What happened to US defence spending between 1970 and 1976
1970- $404 billion
1976- $284 billion
When does the USSR successfully test an A-bomb
August 1949
First ICBM fired by USSR
August 1957
When was the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan?
1978
Who gave the USSR atomic bomb plans
Klaus Fuchs
