Flashpoints In Europe And The Impact On International Relations Flashcards

Question

who led the space race during the 1950s?

Answer 1

USSR sputnik - 1st satellite in space gagarin - 1st man to orbit earth (russian)

Answer 2

USA -US astronauts landed on the moon in 1969

Answer 3

economic motive - a lot of people that left were highly skilled - gov couldn't afford to lose them ideological motive - 1000s of germans fleeing communist rule for a better life under capitalism undermined communism generally political motive - w berlin was a centre for western espionage - west could get more info

Answer 4

1958 he attempted to force the west to withdraw by threatening to give east germany control of access points in the city, however he failed

Answer 5

1960 khrushchev as hoping to persuade the west to leave, but the meeting collapsed when khrushchev revealed that the USSR had shot down a U2 spy plane flying over its territory the events of the meeting increased tensions even further and a new wave of people fled through west berlin, causing labour shortages in the east of the city

Answer 6

june 1961 new pres john f kennedy khrushchev demanded that the west hand over west berlin to the soviets kennedy refused, and the next month increased US spending on weapons by $6.4 billion

Answer 7

13th august 1961

Answer 8

public usa protested about it - JFK ich bin ein berliner speech, w berlin june 1963 privately the wall helped the USA as it stopped the city being an ongoing source of tension between east and west

Answer 9

100s of people died trying to cross the wall, people moving from east to wet germany greatly increased

Answer 10

the west used the berlin wall as a powerful propaganda vehicle - became a symbol for the ideological, social and economic divisions that existed between east and west as hundreds of people died trying to get across, the view of it being something holding people back increased

Answer 11

``` freedom of speech and of the press less centralised economic control development of foreign trade removal of restrictions on travel abroad reduction in the powers of the secret police ```

Answer 12

czech people approved brezhnev feared that the reforms would be copied by other eastern european countries and would ultimately result in the destruction of the iron curtain the communist leaders of poland and e germany had similar fears. in july them along with hungary, bulgaria and the ussr wrote to czech to express their concern. dubček answered that he was committed to socialism and guaranteed that czechoslovakia would remain in the warsaw pact despite these promises, on 20th august 1968, 400,000 mostly russian troops entered czechoslovakia. dubček urged the populationto limit opposition to passive resistance dubček was summoned to moscow. on his return to prague he announced to the people that the prague spring had ended. he resigned a few months later and was replaced by the more hardline gustav husak

Answer 13

late 1968 brezhnev justified the actions that he took in czechoslovakia. he argued that it was the duty of communist countries to act together to prevent another communist state from being capitalist. it was a declaration that the ussr intended always to control the communist countries behind the iron curtain.

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usa wouldnt send help because they had their own problems with war in vietnam and as with hungary, accepted there was no point in intervening in events behind the iron curtain didn't want to damage the recent improvement in relations between east and west - became known as detente

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reation to hungarian reforms - romanian leader ceauseseu called the invasion a 'day of shame' and 'a grave error' building of berlin wall albania leaving the warsaw pact 1968

Flashpoints In Europe And The Impact On International Relations Flashcards

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