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USSR final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Pospelov Commission | 1955 - investigated Stalin, death of Kirov, led to "secret speech" |
| Anti-party group | 5/1957 - Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich led a coup attempt to get Krushchev to resign; failed, but they weren't killed |
| Hungarian Revolt | 10-11/1956 - Hungarians revolted against imposed soviet policies; pro-soviets executed; Soviets initially offered to withdraw troops but changed their minds and invaded to crush the revolution |
| The Novocherkassk massacre | 6/1962 - Grain shortage + Krushchev increasing price of meat and butter and demanding higher output from workers = decrease in pay |
| Virgin Lands Campaign | 1953-56 - Khrushchev launches campaigns for peasants to start farming un-farmed areas which works well initially, but single-crop planting destroys the soil and so peasants must move elsewhere |
| Sputnik | 10/4/1957 |
| U-2 Affair | 5/1960 - US sends spy plane to Russia which gets shot down; denies knowing anything about it until the pilot talks; Khrushchev speaks too violently about US and embarrasses USSR |
| Test Ban Treaty | 8/1963 - Improved relations with US, hurt with China |
| Prague Spring | 1968 - Czech liberal communist party members pass reforms to give more free speech and public debate; Warsaw pact allies thought it was dangerous and in August they moved in to occypy the country |
| Solidarity movement | 1980 - Poland: Solidarity trade union movement that pressured the SU for reforms; beginning of domestic issues for USSR |
| Samizdat | self-publishing |
| Tamizdat | foreign publishing |
| Andropov | 1982 - leader after Khrushchev; seen as a reformer even though he had a role in Prague Spring and Hungarian revolution |
| Berlin Wall erected | 8/1961 - said to be a "protection against fascism" but a PR nightmare as the West used it as a symbol of Soviet tyranny |
| Berlin Wall torn down | 9/1989 - start of the end of the Soviet empire; communism collapsing in poland and hungary |
| Czechoslovakian Velvet Revolution | 11/1989 - non-violent overthrow of Soviet government; |
| Economic "cooperatives" | 1988 - part of perestroika; allowed for some privatization; enterprises allowed to trade with each ohter and set their own prices; failure showed that no one in SU knew how to privatize |
| Anti-Alcohol campaign | 1985-87 - prices of alcohol raised and sales restricted; PIs were prosecuted; led to black market, revenue debt, decreased popularity, drink substitutes |
| 2nd economy | |
| Andreyeva affair | 1988 - "I cannot forsake my principles" defending Soviet conservatism and suggesting Gorb not a real communist |
| Chernobyl | 4-1986 |
| Yeltsin on Tank | |
| Glasnost | |
| Matthias Rust | 5-1987 |
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