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-First person to rule after Stalin
-Made Secret Speech
-Destalinization
-Criticizes Stalin...not communism |
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-Right after Stain's death
-Behind closed doors
-Criticizes Stain and not communism |
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-Khru. tries to reverse stalin's effects
-Stains crimes exposed
-stalin no longer hero
-labor camps closed |
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-Soviets were building missile bases in Cuba
-US and Soviets had a stand off and Soviets backed off
-US took nuclear arms out of Turkey |
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Caused Rebellion
-Poor working conditions
-lack of goods in the stores
-Knowledge of the “Secret Speech”
-Poor Economy
End
-Khrushchev ended it
-Put consumer goods into Poland
-Allowed Catholic Church
-Greater share of agriculture |
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-Soviets
-Hungarians were really fed up so they had an aggressive revolution and pushed out soviets for 3 days
-Soviets came down and harshly crushed the revolution |
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-After Khrushchev
-Second leader since Stalin
-Less authoritarian
-Nothing happened |
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-Awesome
-Wanted more free speech
-More transparency
-Prague Spring
-Socialism with a human face |
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-Brezhnev
-Nothing happened |
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-Dubcek
-Freedom of speech
-REmoval of incompetent leaders
-all in all, FREEDOM |
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| Invasion of Czechoslovakia |
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-Soviets invaded under Brezhnev
-Communists were afraid of Dubcek's liberal-ish plans
-Brezhnev didnt know what to do besides invading and repressing |
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| "Socialism with a human face" |
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-Dubcek
-More transparency
-free speech and press
-no secret police/less control |
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-Brezhnev
-Foreign policy
-made it for an excuse for going into czechoslovakia
-Said that any republic revolting hurt socialism as a whole |
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-US was funding a radical religious group so Soviets invaded
-10 years of bloody pointless war |
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-Poland
-leader of the Solidarity party |
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-General
-Declared martial law and sent Walesa and other opposition leaders to jail
-Intense communist..? |
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-Party in Poland
-wanted to give more workers rights
-higher standard of living
-better working conditions
-embarrassed communists |
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-Declared by Jaruzelski
-Got rid of solidarity |
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-Soviet
-3rd leader after Stalin
-Made Glasnost and Perestrokia |
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-Gorbachev
-Openness
-Increased contact with west
-Worked too well
-Free press
-Free speech |
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-Economic program
-Never really got off the ground
-Total restructuring
-Wasnt really accepted |
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-Nuclear accident
-"meltdown"
-kept it a secret for a couple of days--put everyone at risk |
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-Czechoslovakia
-big writer--helped end communism in czechoslovakia
-Took over after communism fell |
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-Romania
-Hated communist leader
-very violent
-executed by his own military |
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-Helped to end communism
-Leader of the soviet of russia
-Took Russia out of the USSR--basically ending the USSR |
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-Very communist people tried to take over for a couple of days
-PAthetic showing of how conservative communists hated gorbachev |
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