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Mind Map by Andrew Burke, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Andrew Burke
over 7 years ago
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Soviet treatment of
dissent in eastern
Europe 1953-1981
- Hungary 1956
- Protests against repression turned into
full-scale revolution
- Soviet tanks and
soldiers crush the
revolution
- Thousands were killed, and
many Hungarians fled the
country
- Protests against repression turned into
full-scale revolution
- Poland 1980
- Solidarity (a trade union),
which called for greater pay
and freedom, turned into a
national movement
- Soviet tanks and troops seize the
border, making it clear they
would intervene if necessary
- Polish army seized power, imposed
martial law and imprisoned all
Solidarity's leaders
- Solidarity (a trade union),
which called for greater pay
and freedom, turned into a
national movement
- Czechoslovakia
1968
- The Prague Spring - Czech leaders
introduced reforms to end censorship
and increase freedom
- Czech leaders wanted other
political parties to exist
- USSR sent in tanks and
troops to remove the
leaders and crush the
government
- The Prague Spring - Czech leaders
introduced reforms to end censorship
and increase freedom
- East Germany
1953
- People have poor living
standards, availability of
consumer goods and a lack
freedom
- Mass protests in towns
and cities in East
Germany
- Main protest in Berlin is crushed by
East German police and Soviet
troops
- People have poor living
standards, availability of
consumer goods and a lack
freedom
- Poland 1953
- Mass protests for
freedom and
economic
improvements
- The premier,
Gomulka,
promised reforms
- Khrushchev
threatened
Soviet military
intervention
- Responding to Khrushchev,
Gomulka abandons
reforms and clamped
down on dissent
- Mass protests for
freedom and
economic
improvements
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