The Cold War
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- The Cold War
- Ideologies
- USA
- RICHEST country in the world
- Speech and Belief: FREEDOM
- CAPITALISM
- Believed communism was evil
- COMMUNISM
- Believed communism was evil
- Led by TRUMAN
- USSR
- BIGGEST country in the world
- Led by a DICTATOR
- Censorship, Propaganda: STATE CONTROL
- COMMUNISM
- Led by STALIN
- USA
- The Conferences
- Yalta
- February 1945
- Split Germany into 4 zones
- to allow free elections in Eastern European countries
- Russia promised to join the war against Japan when Germany was defeated
- Potsdam
- July 1945
- Roosevelt had died and Churchill had lost the 1945 election
- Truman came away angry about the size of reparations
- Truman did not tell Stalin that he had the atomic bomb.
- Yalta
- The Berlin Blockade and Airlift
- In June 1948, Britain, France and America united their zones into a new country, West Germany.
- The next day, Stalin cut off all rail and road links to west Berlin
- The Berlin Blockade lasted 318 days
- During this time, 275,000 planes transported 1.5 million tons of supplies
- On 12 May 1949, Stalin abandoned the blockade.
- The Hungarian Revolution
- The death of Stalin led many Hungarians to hope that Hungary also would be 'de-Stalinised'.
- During October 1956, students, workers and soldiers in Hungary attacked the AVH
- On 24 October 1956 Imre Nagy - a moderate and a westerniser - took over as prime minister
- Nagy asked Khrushchev to move the Russian troops out
- For five days, there was freedom in Hungary
- on 3 November 1956, Nagy announced that Hungary was going to leave the Warsaw Pact
- The Berlin Wall
- Khrushchev demanded that the USleave West Berlin within six months
- Kennedy refused and instead guaranteed West Berlin's freedom.
- Khrushchev closed the border between East and West Berlin and started building the Berlin Wall
- The Cuban Missile Crisis
- he decided on a naval blockade
- Khrushchev warned that Russia would see the blockade as an act of war
- US bombers were put in the air carrying nuclear bombs; preparations were made to invade Cuba
- the Americans suggested a trade-off of missile bases - US bases in Turkey for Russian bases in Cuba.
- Khrushchev sent a telegram offering to dismantle the Cuban bases
- The Prague Spring
- during 1967, students and writers were complaining about the lack of freedom
- Asked the soviet Leadrer for help, he did not support
- Dubcek's government announced an Action Plan for what it called a new model of socialism
- then the revolution began to run out of control
- Dubcek stressed that Czechoslovakia would stay in the Warsaw Pact
- He announced the Brezhnev Doctrine - the USSR would not allow any Eastern European country to reject Communism.
- 500,000 Warsaw Pact troops invaded Czechoslovakia. Dubcek and three other leaders were arrested and sent to Moscow.
- they stood in front of the tanks, and put flowers in the soldiers' hair. Jan Palach burned himself to death in protest.
- Ideologies
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