Cold War Crises

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  • Cold War Crises
    • The Construction of the Berlin Wall
      • problem of Berlin not solved in meetings
      • Khrushchev solution to build wall to prevent refugee crisis
      • Oct 1961 West cut off from East
      • Reasons for wall
        • Khrushchev could not win a nuclear war
        • West stayed in Berlin
        • wall solved refugee crisis
        • Khrushchev avoid war & look strong
    • The Brezhnev Doctrine and Soviet control in Czechoslovakia
      • Brezhnev didn't allow reforms
      • Soviets sent tanks to arrest Dubcek
      • consequences
        • Soviets had right to invade Eastern bloc
        • US condemned invasion
        • communist parties horrified & became independent
        • Soviet grip weakened
      • actions intimidated other countries in Eastern Bloc (potential invasion likely)
    • The events of the Cuban Missile Crisis
      • USSR use Cuba strategically
        • US have missiles near Soviets
        • Cuba near US
      • Soviet ships sent to Cuba with warheads & missles
        • US saw this (WORRIED)
      • Some believed that US should attack immediately (HAWKS)
      • some wanted to avoid war as much as possible (doves)

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