Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Development of
Cold War Tensions
- Military Alliances
- NATO
- Formed in 1949
- North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- 12 original members
- Aligned with the USA
- UK, France. Canada
- Warsaw Pact
- Set up in 1955
- Reaction towards NATO and
West Germany's admission
- 8 Communist members of Eastern Europe
- Military component of Comecon
- Korean War
- Events
- Phase 1: North Korea advances to Pusan
- Phase 2: MacArthur's UN troops land
at Inchon, pushing NK to River Yalu
- Phase 3: 200,000 People's Volunteers cross
Yalu and push UN past 38th Parallel
- Phase 4: American troops and bombers land
and pushed NK and Ch to the 38th Parallel
- Phase 5: MacArthur sacked over A-bomb threat.
Eisenhower takes over. Armistice called in 1951
but delayed to 1953
- Tensions
- Detonation of
H-bomb by both sides
- 1952 US airstrikes
- China's fall into Communism
- Causes
- Acheson exludes SK from USA's
Strategic Defense Perimeter
- UN elects Syngman Rhee
NK elects Kim Il Sung
- USSR's A-bomb
threatens SK and USA
- Hungarian Uprising
- Oct-Nov 1956
- Events
- University
students enter
Budapest with
a list of
demands
- Demonstrations and
Writer's Union's 16 Points
- Imre Nagy instated as USSR forces kill 100
- Nagy gives ultimatum and Soviets leave
- A week later, Soviets reinvade Budapest in half a day
- Kadar instated as Communist leader
- 4000 Hungarians killed
- Nagy hanged
- Tensions
- US won either way
- Fall of Communism if Hungary succeeds
- Propaganda if Hungary fails
- Communists in Western countries left the party
- Causes
- Secret Speech
by Khrushchev
- USSR troops left Austria
- Poland Socialist Reform
- Arms Race and Space Race
- Arms Race
- Atom Bomb
- USA developed it in 1945
- Used on Hiroshima
and Nagasaki
- USSR exploded the
atom bomb in 1949
- Hydrogen Bomb
- USA detonates an H-bomb in 1952
- USSR detonated their H-bomb in 1954
- Space Race
- USSR
- Took an early lead
- First satellite in space, Sputnik 1957
- First man in space, Yuri Gargarin 1961
- USA
- Apollo's man on the moon, Neil Armstrong 1969
- Had an Army and Navy
space programme
- Developed ICBMs in 1959
- Peaceful Co-existence
- Stalin's Death
- 1953
- National mourning despite the Purges
- American optimism
- Nikita Khruschev
- Took over in 1955
- Held talks with Western leaders
- Proposed 'peaceful co-existence'