The Cold War in the 1950s Flashcards
What are the key features of the Korea War?
- Truman viewed the Korean War as a test of his policy of containment
- 1950 - 1953
- June 1950 Communist North invaded Capitalist South
- Rollback 1950 October
- China enters and devastates
- After the replacement of Truman with Eisenhower and death of Stalin 38th parallel set as new border July 1953
Why is Khrushchev so GREAT?
Came in power in 1955
•New hope in thaw in the Cold War
•Rapproachment with Yugoslavia
• Secret Speech 1956 starts the desalinisation process
•called Stalin a murder and a tyrant
•Said he wanted peaceful coexistence with the US
What was the Warsaw Pact?
Set up in 1955
•Defensive military alliance of the USSR and its satellite starts in EE
•Intended as a counter force to NATO
•Relied on collective security: If one nation was attacked, others would come to its aid
•created to create a more effective buffer zone
What were the causes of the Hungarian Uprising?
October 1956
•encouraged by successful events in Poland
1. Poverty
2. Russian totalitarian control
3. Catholic Church - religion was banned
4. Thought West would come to their aid
5. De-stalinisation: communist leader disagreed with moderates
What were the events of the Hungarian Uprising?
23 October: riots by students, workers and soldiers - smashed statue of Staln
24 October: Imre Nagy took control asking Russia to remove her troops
28 October: Khrushchev agreed
29 October - 3 november: democracy, freedom of speech and religion implemented nagy announces plans to withdraw from the Warsaw Pact
4 November: Russia attacks killing 4000 Hungarians, seize control
What were the consequences of the Hungarian Uprising?
- 200 000 fled to Austria
- Russia stayed in control
- People in West horrified - British communists left party
- Clear to EE West would NOT come to their aid
- West became more determined to contain communism
