Krushchev Dates Flashcards
Virgin Land Campaign began
1954
KGB formed, what happened to MVD?
1954, MVD turned into the body responsible for normal policing
Khrushchev met with Tito (defrosting of relationship with Yugoslavia)
1955
Warsaw Pact, what was it?
May 1955, soviet military defence treaty
First hydrogen bomb developed
1955
20th party congress and secret speech
February 1956
Comniform ended
September 1956
Polish thaw- Polish granted greater freedoms
October 1956
Hungarian uprising
October-November 1956
Sovnarkoz reform, what was it?
1957, organisation to manage separate economic region
Sputnik launched into space
1957
8 hour working day
1958
Khrushchev visits America
1959
Khrushchev maize growing campaign launched
1959
Shoe banging on table
1960
Berlin Wall
1961
Workers riots in Novochercassk
1962
Cuban Missile Crisis
November 1962
Test treaty ban- signed by UK, Soviet and US- increased tensions with China
1963
Agricultural crisis generated by soil erosion in the ‘virgin lands’
1963
Fall of Khrushchev
1964
US U2 plane shot down
May 1960