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CW E3

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    E3

  • Khruschev into power

  • 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    Gomułka promised not to leave WP - secured greater freedom of action, Soviet troops withdrawn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

  • ICBM - R-7 Semyorka

    8800km to deliver warheads
  • Sputnik I

  • Laika

  • Moscow Conference

    USSR first and mightiest of socialist countries
  • Vanguard (Flopnik)

  • First US satellite in space

  • 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

  • Berlin Wall

  • 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

  • Valentina Tereshkova

  • SV rebel gens coup

    Nhu and Diem assassinated