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E3
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Khruschev into power
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US Hydrogen bomb
Expected 5 megatons but 15 instead -
USSR H Bomb
1.6 megatons -
Secret Speech
Destalinisation, long-term political stability, econ growth + improved living conditions -
Student Protests in Hungary
USSR tanks repressed revolts
Nagy agreed to ceasefire, assured loyalty to USSR
Nagy then supported rev - destroyed comm offices + killed secret policemen -
Polish Uprising
Workers in Poznan demanded bread, liberty and freedom for Church + end of USSR domination of Poland - Polish army killed 74 people.
Polish communists hated repression- chose Gomułka as new leader.
USSR feared Poland would leave Warsaw Pact - USSR army + Khrushchev to Poland.
Gomułka promised not to leave WP - secured greater freedom of action, Soviet troops withdrawn
Allowed own road to socialism
West powerless -
USSR invasion of Budapest
USSR realised US wouldn't intervene
USSR entered Budapest + crushed uprising
Nagy executed
4000 killed + 20,000 fled
Janos Kadar new leader
Arrested 35,000
USSR increased divisions in Hungary - 2 to 4 - Hungarian gov had to pay for troops -
Khruschev "We Will Bury You" speech
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ICBM - R-7 Semyorka
8800km to deliver warheads -
Sputnik I
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Laika
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Moscow Conference
USSR first and mightiest of socialist countries -
Vanguard (Flopnik)
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First US satellite in space
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USSR Luna III
First USSR satellite to orbit moon successfully -
U2 Spy plane spotted
Cancellation of 1960 Paris Peace Talks -
Rejection of USSR ultimatum
Wanted US to remove troops from West Berlin -
NLF established in SV
Against Diem imperialism - was seen as a US puppet
10 Point Programme -
Yuri Gargarin
Lasted 108 minutes -
Kennedy announces US will put man on moon first
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Berlin Wall
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H Bomb - Tsar Bomba
50 megatons -
Operation Sunrise
Forced relocation of SV peasants in fortified hamlets to protect/isolate from Vietcong
3000 hamlets with 1 mil people by end of 1962 -
Buddhists banned from flying flags on Buddha's birthday
Protests + Repression
9 killed
First monk burned himself -
Monk burned himself in Vietnam
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Valentina Tereshkova
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SV rebel gens coup
Nhu and Diem assassinated