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Cold war (Second berlin crisis (Brain drain (Smart people in east berlin…
Cold war
Second berlin crisis
1961
Khrushchev's ultimatum
He wanted the west to leave berlin
The west refused
Brain drain
Smart people in east berlin would move to the west or get jobs in the west so they had more money
this left the soviet union with less workers
It makes the east look bad
The wall stopped people from crossing into west berlin from the east and staying in the west
Consequences
it split up many families
US and soviet tanks both pull up to checkpoint charlie
Cuban missile crisis
Fidel castro
Turned cuba in a one-party communist state
Cuba is on 90 miles from the US
The US were scared of the communist so close to them
The soviets missiles would be able to reach the US from Cuba
1959 - 1962
In 1962 the soviets removed their missiles from cuba
In exchange the Us removed missiles from turkey
Consequences
Castro was mad at the soviets backing down
Hotline set up
Khrushchev was replaced
bay of pigs invasion
failed
On 17 April 1961
The US trained the Cuban exiles to fight and invade cuba
They guessed that many cuba's would support this group but they did not
Prague spring
Berlin: 5th January 1968
Dubcek to grant more rights to the citizens of czechoslovakia
Warsaw pact troops occupied the country
The soviets brutally stopped the reforms by replacing Dubcek with a hardline communist.