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unit 6:How secure was the USSR's control over Eastern Europe?…
unit 6:How secure was the USSR's control over Eastern Europe?
Hungarian uprising
The USSR banned the catholic church used the secret police and controlled the education system in Hungary.
the hungarian protest by demanding the ner leader, withdrawing of the red army and leaving the warsaw pact.
The New leader of the USSR, Nikita Khrushchev responded with bringing in the army and in two weeks 3,000 Hungarians were killed and 200,00 fled to Austria.
The leaders of the uprising were imprisoned and the new president, Imre Nagy, was executed.
Prague spring
After WWII the USSR had taken control of Czechoslovakia.
1968 the Czechs in the Capital, Prague, were tired of the lower standard of living, lack of Freedoms, and the One-Party system
Alexander Dubcek, promised to stay in the Warsaw Pact, the USSR still invaded his country to avoid the spreading of these ideas into Eastern Europe.
the world that USSR was bound to use force to keep control of its satellite states in Eastern Europe.
berlin wall
Many Germans were unhappy with the USSR running their country, due to the low standard of living and lack of basic freedoms.
Leader of the USSR, Leonid Brezhnev, decided to put a wall around the capitalist city of Berlin to stop the Germans from leaving, although he claimed it was to stop capitalist spies from entering his territory
The Wall remained in place for 28 years and did decrease the number of Germans fleeing the communist controlled country.
Berlin Wall also became a symbol for the Cold War but eventually it was made useless in 1989 when the Germans refused to be held back by it.
Poland solidarity
people were very unhappy because poland's economy was doing poorly and they did not have all the freedoms that others had in non-communist countries
Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany, the Poles were very organized and had a leader that broadcast their demands to the world
On December 25th 1991 after the election of Boris Yeltsin, Gorbachev declared the USSR to be dead.
USSR'S collapse
Mikhail gorbachev decided to make some changes to the communist.
gorbachev decrease the amount of money that the government was spending on the military
USSR was having economic problems due to a lack of growth and over spending on the military