USSR Flashcards

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Stalin

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1928-53
 policies:
-expanastioniest and post war occuptation
-european security
-cominform
-waraw pact
-atom bomb detonation 

events:

  • wartime conferences
  • percentage agreements
  • Berlin Blocade
  • Czech coup
  • Soviet-Yugoslav Split
  • korean war
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Kruschnev

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(1953-64)
policies:
-peaceful co-existence
-de-stalinization

events:

  • summit meetings
  • hungarian, suez, berlin, congo crisies
  • cuban missile crisis
  • sino soviet split
  • vietnam war
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Brezhnev

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expansionist policy
brezhnev doctrine; soviet union can interveje in communist countries

events;

  • prague spring
  • salt I
  • salt II
  • helinski accords
  • afghanistan invasion
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4
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Andropov

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1982-84

  • protect USSR from SDI
  • suppression of Hungarian Revolution
  • dissent suppression

able archer crisis; KAL 001 plane crash
afghan invasion

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5
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Cherenko

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1984-85

- reunification of SDI

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6
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Gorbachev

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1985-91

  • perestoika and satellite states
  • glasnot
  • anti-acloholism
  • end afghan war
  • new world order
events:
chernobyl
revolutions 1989
end of USSR and cold war
-geneva
reyjavik
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