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Hist 122: Overview (Wwi And Decolonization; \"peaceful\" Decolonization: India And Pakistan--1947; Violent Decolonization: Algeria; Cold War And Non-Alignment; Communist China; The Third World In The Cold War: Cuba)
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 "doctor's plot" |
Attempted to get rid of Jewish doctors
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 De-Stalinization |
Movement led by Khrushchev to reduce the influence of Stalin in the Soviet Union
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 Nikita Khrushchev |
Replaced Stalin in 1955, led the "de- Stalinization" movement. Accused Stalin of creating a "cult of Personality"
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 Gary Francis Powers |
Pilot of a U-2 spy plane that was shot down on May 1, 1960 despite the "Free Skies" proposal in 1955
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 John F. Kennedy |
Elected president in 1961, supported aggressive foreign policy to impress the Soviets.
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 Aleksei Kosygin |
Soviet Satesman, and Premier of the Soveit Union (1964-1980)
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 Leonid Brezhnev |
General secretary of the communist party, rose to power by the 1970's, kept power until 1982, reversed the de-Stalinization efforts
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 Alexander Solzhenitsyn |
Dissident that refused to be quieted. Wrote The Gulag Archipelago,eventually deported to the U.S.
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 Dr. Andrea Sakharov |
Scientist who invented Soviet Hydrogen bomb, denounced arms races and exiled to Gorki
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 Eleana Bonner |
Wife of Sakharov, claimed to be unable to leave country because of emergency heart surgery
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 Richard Nixon |
Met with Brezhnev at Moscow Conference in 1972, meeting led to Signing of SALT I
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 Josip Broz Tito |
Leader of the communist party in Yugoslavia, fought Germans in WWII, wanted to develop own policies, not use Stalin's
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 Wladyslaw Gomulka |
Became leader of Poland after 1956 workers revolt. Anti-Soviet communist, freed political prisoners, reopened relations with catholic church
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 Imre Nagy |
Elected Prime Minister of Hungary twice, announced Hungary's neutrality and withdrawal from the Warsaw Pact in 1956
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 Janos Kadar |
Replaced Nagy after Soviets invaded Hungary
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