Pressures on the USSR Flashcards

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Warsaw Pact
It is a military treaty established between the Soviet Union and its satellite states
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Coup
It is an attempted ousting of the present government and its form to establish another
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Brezhnev
Was the Soviet leader after Khrushchev and is known for the Brezhnev Doctrine, SALT, Non-Proliferation Pact and the war in Afghanistan
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Triangular diplomacy
A policy established by Nixon and Henry Kissinger in assessing foreign relations between the USA, USSR and PRC
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Geopolitics
It is the study of the impacts of geography on political relations between countries
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Alexander Dubcek
Replaced Antonin Novotny. Known for his attempt to establish a unique socialist path in Czechoslovakia which leap to the Prague Spring
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Prague Spring
Soviet intervention in Prague to hinder Czechoslovakia from developing their own distinct socialist path
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Antonin Novotny
Former Czechoslovak leader who was pressured by the USSR to resign and replaced by Dubcek
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Malinovsky incident
At a Sino-Soviet talk held in Moscow 1964, Malinovsky, the Soviet defence minister, suggested that the PRC should oust Mao from power
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
A revolution which rose in China by 1966 with the inte´ntion to bring China bvack to its Communist roots
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Cultural Revolution
A cultural revolution is a revolution which hasa socioeconomic impact on the country in which it takes place
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Great Leap Forward
Was an attempt by Mao to modernise China's economy to rival that of the USA within a span of 20 years
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Revisionism
This was a word used in the Communist world to assert to a government whichwas deviating from the revolutionary path of socialism
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It is an attempted ousting of the present government and its form to establish another

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Coup

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Was the Soviet leader after Khrushchev and is known for the Brezhnev Doctrine, SALT, Non-Proliferation Pact and the war in Afghanistan

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A policy established by Nixon and Henry Kissinger in assessing foreign relations between the USA, USSR and PRC

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It is the study of the impacts of geography on political relations between countries

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