UNIT 2- (NORMAL ESSAY) Post Stalin thaw 1953-6 Flashcards
When did Stalin die? Date and year
5th March 1953
when was Eisenhower in presidency?
1953-61.
what were Eisenhower’s two policies?
Brinkmanship and new look policy.
what was “Brinkmanship?”
where both the superpowers would get so close to nuclear war.
what and when was the U2 spy plane incident?
- When the USSR shot down a passanger plane, that thought it was US spy plane.
after the U2 spy plane incident, what summit was held and when?
Paris summit, 1960. to discuss the issues with what happened.
when did the Vietnam war begin?
1955.
what happened at the Geneva summit in 1955?
Eisenhower and Khrushchev met and it improved US/USSR relations.
who were the main personalities throughout this period? (1953- 63)
Khruschev, Kennedy and Eisenhower.
when did Josef Stalin die?
5th March 1953.
when Khrushchev came into power of the USSR what were his 2 main polices?
Destalinisation and peaceful co-existence.
when did the ceasefire on Korea happen and under which president?
Eisenhower, July 1953.
When was the Berlin wall established?
- it split Berlin in half (West and East)
what/When was the Hungarian uprising and how did it look good on Eisenhower?
- It is when the USSR/Communism were trying to invade them, and Eisenhower did not intervene as it was not in his sphere of influence.
