Cold War Revision Notes

Polish Feelings: National feeling strong, wanted country to make its own policies The Catholic Church - strong in Poland, wnted freedom to preach Living Standards, shortage of food and other goods click here for full revision note

The Hungarian Uprising - 1956 In 1953 Stalin died, Hungarian leader Rakosi was overthrown by Nagy (overthrown by Rakosi - 1955) Resentment grew Reasons for uprising Censorship Secret Police (AVO) click here for full revision note

Berlin Crisis 1961 Khruschev tries to pressure Kennedy into removing troops from West Berlin Kennedy won't and neither will other powers Flow of refugees from East to West Berlin increa click here for full revision note

Gorbachev wanted to modernize and streamline the communist party system was too centralised he did not want to end communism His policies: Glasnost: (Openess) Freedom thousands of political prisoner click here for full revision note

Vietnam War: Prelude to full US involvement 1946-1954 - Vietnamese fighting for indipendance against Japanese and French. Vietminh (Communist leader Ho Chi Minh) Eventually lead to total U.S. interve click here for full revision note

1959... Why did Castro come to power - Janurary 1959 Had help of Che Guevara Resentment of people against huge U.S. influence in the country Cuba too dependant of sugar export unemployement / no be click here for full revision note

Czechoslovakia 1968 (Prague Spring) Socialism with a human face. To earn the right to power by responding to peoples wishes. Reasons for Uprising Freedom of speech - when indipendant people had this l click here for full revision note

Yalta conference - Feburary 1945 Discussed plans for ending the war and peace settlement at the seaside resort of Yalta, in the Soviet Union Three leaders at Yalta: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin They click here for full revision note

Basic reasons for conflict was opposite ideologies Causes of Cold War Stalin's takeover of Europe as they defeated the Nazis The West believed Stalin was committed to spreading communism US and Briti click here for full revision note