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THE COLD WAR: 1956-1984 (CHALLENGES TO SOVIET AUTHORITY IN EASTERN EUROPE,…

- - - - Khrushchev: appointed Gomulka as leader, thought he would be puppet
    - - Khrushchev threatened Gomulka with the Red Army
        
        Gomulka didn't back down so Khrushchev did: Gomulka allowed to stay in power, made promise to stay in the Warsaw Pact
  - - - New leader: Imre Nagy
        
        Bolish one Party state
        
        Leave Warsaw pact
      - Soviets sent in the tamks, was a bloodbath, Nagy was executed
  - - - Mass immigration from the GDR to the FRG
      - FRG experiencing economic miracle
      - Khrushchev offered west an ultimatum, leave Berlin and it be a free city or he would shut off access
        
        The west stayed stubborn. 1961: The Berlin Wall
    - - tank stand off with USSR and USA, they both backed down
        
        made communism look weak