Khrushchev interpretation questions stats Flashcards
5 year plan faliures
6th 5 year plan abandoned after 2 years
5th 5 year plane wasted money on hydroelectric damns
Secret speech
25th February 1956
Gulags
11000 political prisoners by 1960
Communique with yugoslavia
June 21st 1956
Icbm test
21 August 1957
Sputnik
1 october 1957, 11 is november 1957
Yuri Garagrin
April 12th 1961
Tsar bomba
October 30, 1961
u2 crisis
May 1st 1960
Paris peace summit
May 16th 1960
Vienna summit
June 4th 1961
Polish crisis date
18th-20th october 1956
Polish crisis stats
57 killed. 400 tanks and 3000 troops
Hungary date
November 5th 1956
Hungary stats
October 24th 1956 Nagy leader
Inavde with 4000 tanks and 15 divisions
3000 killed. 20000 flee to america
Berlin wall date
13th August 1961
Berlin stats
3.5 billion brain drain. 11700 graduates. 15800 engineers. Coasts 1/2 billion a year.
Checkpoint charlie
October 28th-30th 1961
Eich bein ein Berliner
16th june 1963
Sino soviet
1958 refuse to help china invade taiwan
Soical reform
Abortion in 1955,
108billion move to new flats [housing stack doubles 1955-1954],
30m2 per person
50%live in cities by 1960
1958 7-hour work day max
Economic refroms
1964 - over 400 in 1000 have friges vs 4 in 1000 in 1955
1964 - 1 in 77 have washing machine
5 year plan 5- focused on heavy industry
Virgin land campaign
165 million acres
140 million tonnes grain in 1962, 102 in 1963 - dries up the aral sea
Novocherkassk food riots
23 killed june 2nd 1962
