The Cold War Intensifies
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- The Arms Race and the Warsaw Pact
- The Cold War Intensifies
- Soviet Control of Hungary
- Hungary suffered under Stalin's control
- Food & industrial products shipped to Russia
- Had brutal leader (Rakosi)
- communist rule unpopular
- Destalinisation
- Stalin died & replaced by Khrushchev
- Harvest bad for Hungarians= demonstrations against communism (statues destroyed)
- Nagy employed to calm situation down
- The Soviet Invasion of Hungary, 1956
- Khrushchev disapproved of Nagy's reforms & took action
- 4 Nov 1956 Khrushchev sent 200,000 Soviet troops to Hungary
- 5000 Hungarians killed
- Nagy & his government deposed
- Nagy executed (as warning to other satellite countries)
- Reactions & consequences
- UN condemned actions (countries boycotted Olympics)
- USA support Hungarians (but don't send troops)
- soviet control tightens
- Khrushchev disapproved of Nagy's reforms & took action
- Soviet Control of Hungary
- Nuclear monopoly used by USA to deter USSR
- allowed best strategy in case of war
- development of nuclear weapons on each side = Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
- confrontation could escalate to nuclear war
- USA & USSR had to find way to stop disputes turning into war
- confrontation could escalate to nuclear war
- development of nuclear weapons on each side = Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
- allowed best strategy in case of war
- Warsaw Pact= collective defence treaty
- Significance of WP
- two opposing alliances
- planned military action against each other
- gave USSR direct control over armed forces in satellite states
- The Cold War Intensifies
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