Cold War Crises
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- Created on: 15-04-18 18:34
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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)
- USSR use Cuba strategically
- The Construction of the Berlin Wall
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