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Stalin’s Regime - US culture shock

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5m died in famine after collectivisation of land
1936-38 = great terror, kamenev/zioniev and 1m others killed
20m put in concentration camps - 12m killed

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Lenin vs Wilson 1917-18

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Wilson’s 14 point Jan 1918
Vangaurd of the proleteriat Oct 1917

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Civil War

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1918-20 UK, USA, France support

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Comintern

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Created 1919 moscow
Lenin and zinoviev
Fund communist parties and revs

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Pre-War USSR vs USA

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Appeasment 1938 - gave Hitler sudetenland
Aug 1939 - Nazi-soviet pact
Sep 1939 - Poland invaded

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Tehran conference

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Nov-Dec 1943
D-day agreed, May 1944, USSR front in east

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Percentage deal

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Oct 1944
USSR vs UK
Hungary/Yugoslavia = 50/50
Romania = 90/10
Bulgaria = 75/25
Greece = 10/90

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War tensions

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Nov 1939 - Finland invaded by USSR
Removed from League of Nations Dec 1939
April 1943 - 10,000 officers dead by USSR in Katyn forest
Operation Barbarossa - June 1941 allies
Aug 1944 - USSR delay from helping Poland

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WW2 losses

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USSR 25m
USA 400,000

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Yalta

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Feb 1945
4 zones in germany
Poland West to Oder-Neisse line
Enter war with Japan 3 months after armactise with Germany
20bn reperations - 50% to USSR

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Atomic Bomb

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Jul 1945
Manhattan project from 1942
Dropped 6th and 9th aug

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Potsdam

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Jul-Aug 1945
War criminals killed - Nuremburg trials 1946
25% of all german industrial equipment to USSR in return for goods
Truman in April 1945

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Iron Curtain

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March 1946
Pravada compare Churchill to hitler in response

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Takeover of Albania

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Communist by 1945
USSR not involved

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Takeover of Bulgaria

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Nov 1945 - rigged elections
1946 - other leaders killed

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Truman Doctrine

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March 1947
Caused by Kennan telegram Feb 1946
Feb 1947 UK no longer help turkey, remove 40,000 troops
400 million dollars gived to Greece and Turkey to contain communism

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Marshall Plan

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March 1948
Caused by Cominform, Feb 1948 takeover of Czechoslovakia
13.7bn give from 1948-52 + 13bn before plan started

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Cominform

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Oct 1947
1943- Comintern stopped
Sep 1946 - Novikov’s telegram
By 1953 - 5% of Hungary imprisoned
2m communists striking in Nov 1947 shut down

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Takeover of Yugoslavia

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Tito accpeted aid from Marshall plan
But out of cominform 1948

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NATO

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April 1949
Brussels pact in response to czechoslovakia takeover March 1948 - wider talks
Caused by Berlin Blockade
Met first time sep 1949

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Stalin + SED

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20,000 SPD tortured
Febuary 1946 - forced to merge with KPD to create SED
HORRIFIC PERFORMANCE

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stops sending reperations

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May 1946 - general clay

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Bizonia

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July 1946 - Molotov demands 10bn
Merger of zones Jan 1947
Trizonia by March 1948
New currency Deutschmark

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Berlin Blockade

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June 1948
Airlifts started July
90s rotation
Managed up to 13000 tonnes by April 1949
320,000 flights and 79 pilots die
Feb 1949 - stop exports

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USSR a-bomb
Aug 1949 first test
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FRG
Constitution May 1949 Elections in Aug 1949 CDU leader adenauer chancellor sep 1949
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GDR
KPD only 5.7% vote in western side Stalin accepts new constitution by Ulbricht Oct 1949
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COMECON
Jan 1949 E germany joined 1950 - ecomomic division of germany USSR got Polish coal for 10% market price
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NATO expansion
SEATO sep 1954 + CENTO feb 1955 1951 Greece and Turkey join (borders with USSR) w germany remilitarised and joined NATO May 1955
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Arms spending
USA tripled USSR army from 2.8m to 5.6m in 5 years USA- by 1968 75bn USSR 30% GDP- living standards behind
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Hydrogen Bomb
Nov 1952- USA Aug 1953 - USSR
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Paranoia
Senator McCarthy 1950's removed 7000 govt officials from jobs under impression they were communists Communist party banned 1944 Physicist Fuchs arrested Mar 1950 Rosenburgs arrested July 1950 NSC-68
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Korea Pre-War
1948 - Kim II Sung one party state in north President Syngman Rhee in south USSR removed troops 1948 USA removed troops 1949
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Korean War Events
Kim II Sung crossed 38th parallel June 1950 UN send help to South - USSR unable to veto as boycotting UN from Jan 1950 Sep 1950 - early success from NK Oct 1950 - UN forces arrive, USA help counter-attack Feb 1951 - USSR supplies and 200000 chinese troops fight back April 1951 - stalemate Ended July 1951 with armastice NK 1m killed china 0.6m sk 1.2m un 37000
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Warsaw Pact
May 1955 e ger joined 1956
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Destalinisation
Krushchev Feb 1955 speech Distrubuted by CIA June 1956
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Hungarian Uprising
Raovski brutal killed 2000 agriculture output lowest 1952 reyovski in charge apr 1955 + join Warsaw pact oct 1956- demonstrations mean nagi put in charge too many reforms= 200000 troops November into Hungary 2 weeks of fighting- 20000 Hungarians killed, 200000 flee Nagi executed 1958 Hardline communist Kadar in charge November 200 anti-communists executed Oct 1957- de stalinisation done
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U2 Crisis
flown over USSR from 1956 1 shot down May 1960 USA cover up - Gary Powers confess
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Paris conference
2 days long DISASTER May 1960 Krushchev denied further talks
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ICBMS
1957 first developed by 1961- USA 22 000 nuclear weapons, USSR- 2500 USA- 57 ICBMS, USSR- 10
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Bay of Pigs
Castro control 1959- socialist 1960- arms from USSR- refused to buy sugar Apr 1961- USA send 1,400 anti-Castros to Cuba 20000 Cuban troops crushed then
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Berlin Wall
1/5 of GDR (4m) flee 1953- 1m GDR in riots- 100 killed Nov 1958- Berlin ultimatum June 1961- Vienna summit- renewed ultimatum- JFK increased defence spending by 3.5m, Krushchev by 30% Aug 1961- wall built in Berlin Oct 1961- Checkpoint Charlie
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Cuban Missile Crisis
By Sep 62, thousands of Soviet weapons on Cuba U2s discover nuclear missile sites in October and ships 22nd Oct- JFK blockade and requests withdrawl of missiles 24th Oct- ships reach blockade and turn around 27th Oct- JFK accepted to not attack Cuba if missiles were withdrawn- by Nov 62, US missiles were withdrawn from Turkey contributed to Kruschchev fall of power Oct 1964, replaced by Brezhrnez
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Hotline
June 1963- used in Israel, India and Arab wars
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Vietnam war
from 1965- USA troops South Vietnam USA poor- peace talks 1968 Cost: 170bn + 60 000 troops Ended after talks from Oct 1972- Jan 1973
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Limited Test Ban Treaty
Aug 1963 113 signed after led to 1974 threshold test ban treaty
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Outer Space Treaty
Jan 1967 Never been violatin in 50 years Further treaties: rescue agreement 1968, space liability convention 1972, sea bed treaty 1971
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Nuclear non-proliferation treaty
July 1968 NWS keep weapons signed by 62 countries partial success
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Prague Spring
Oct 1967- protests mean Dubcek in power Replaced Novotny- brutal and IDIOTA Prague Spring reforms- June 1968- rival parties- FREEDOM July 1968- Dubcek shut down opposition parties but insisted on reforms Following Brezhenz ultimatium, 200,000 Warsaw pact troops invade Aug 1968 Reforms ended- protests in 1969, Jan Palach burnt himself New leader Hussak in
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China
USA oppose creation of PRC- 1949, fought China in Korean war 1950- 53 First A bomb 1964 USSR- poor relations and fighting along border 1969
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Brezhnev doctrine
Sep 1968- justified Prague Spring
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SALT
May 1972 3 agreements: interim treaty (5 year freeze on missiles), anti-ballistic missile treaty (only 100 ABMs each)
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SALT 2
Ended 1977 dropped after USSR invade Afganistan in Dec 1979
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Chinese thaw
National security adviser Kisinger visits China July 1971, Oct 1971 Oct 1971- PRC on UN security council
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Beyond SALT
Space- Apollo Soyuz project - 1975 Trade- Sale of grain- July 1972, 750m in 3 years Trade deal- Oct 1972

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