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18 Cards in this Set
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U2 Crisis |
U2 plane shot down, Gary Powers captured, Eisenhower lied, didn't apologise, Khrushchev ended peace talks. |
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Berlin Wall |
West Berlin received Marshall aid, 2 million defectors, Khrushchev made a wall, only 5,000 defected, shot if crossing checkpoint, Propaganda victory, Kennedy's speech. |
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Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 |
Bay of Pigs failed 1961, naval blockade, ignored second letter, Soviet shot another U2 plane, Turkey missiles still removed, led to detente. |
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Czechoslovakia 1968 |
Novotny replaced by Dubcek, 'human face', Prague spring reforms, said he wouldn't leave the Warsaw Pact, 100 killed, passive resistance, Husak replaced Dubcek, Brezhnev Doctrine, 500,000 Pact troops, no-one happy. |
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Reasons for Detente |
Expensive MAD, Hotline, Test Ban Treaty, end Vietnam, oil. |
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Progress of Detente |
SALT 1 1972, Helsinki agreement, meetings, symbolic photo ops, 1979 AFGHANISTAN. |
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Reasons for Afghanistan |
Maintain communism, keep oil, stop spread of Islam. |
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Ronald Reagan |
Renewal, 'Evil Empire', SDI, Neutron Bomb, Increased spending by $100bn. |
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Solidarity |
Gdansk 1980, 21 demands, troops by the border, martial law, Walesa arrested, glasnost made them stronger, free elections 1989, 44 years after promise. |
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Gorbachev |
1985 Geneva, INF 87, 88 not 'evil', wanted reform, Glasnost Perestroika |
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Berlin Wall |
Knocked down 1989, free elections 1990, Kohl leader. |
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Czechoslovakia |
'Velvet Revolution', Husak for Havel, 1990 elections. |
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Hungary |
Kadar died, Nagy reburial, border opened, 1990 elections. |
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Malta summit |
No longer enemies. |
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The End |
Yeltsin saves Gorbachev from the coup, Ukraine leaves, Gorbachev resigns 1991. |
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1990 Transatlantic Agreement |
US friends with Europe forever. |
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Kuwait |
Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, resolution 661 stopped trade, 678 was a warning, Desert Storm - air attack, coalition forces, Desert Saber - ground attack, UN troops took over, weapon inspectors, Saddam forced to leave BUT remained leader. |
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Kosovo |
Albania vs Serbia, Yugoslav Milosevic supported Serbia, Ethnic cleansing of Kosovo-Albanians, KLA attacked Serbs, Milosevic crushed them, UN intervened, UN resolution 1199 ordered the stop of cleansing, ignored so airstrikes happened. NATO took over Kosovo 1999. |
