Over the Wall - 5

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Planning today

Repetition

6.4. Ending on a relaxed note, 1962-1991

Who succeeded Stalin?

1. Chroesjtsjov
2. Gorbatsjov

Why did the Hungarian uprising fail?

Why did the government in the SU decide to build the wall in 1961?

Khrushchev supported Fidel Castro. What did he get in return?

1. Money
2. Installations for missiles
3. Labourers from Cuba
4. An alliance

6.4. Ending on a relaxed note

Cuban Missile Crisis > period of relaxation.

But the nuclear arms race continued.

Salt-I Treaty 1972 (Kennedy and Khrushchev)

Agreement on reduction of nuclear weapons.

No weapons to other countries.

max. 2250 long-range missiles. 

6.4. Ending on a relaxed note

President Reagan > tension again

SDI Project aka 'Star wars'

SU threatens to build more nuclear weapons again.

6.4. Ending on a relaxed note

Change

1968: New communist leader in Czechoslovakia

Alexander Dubček: 'communism with a human face'

Prague Spring; short term.

SU intervened with the army, Dubček was replaced. 

6.4. Ending on a relaxed note

SU is falling apart

1. Nuclear arms race costs a lot of money

2.SU involved in war in Afghanistan, was no money for it

3. Economy is stalling; planned economy does not work.

1985: New Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev

6.4.Ending on a relaxed note

Mikhail Gorbachev

Change; glasnost and perestroika.

Mainly economic; more freedom for companies and farmers.

Population was confused by this new freedom > unrest, also in the satellite states.