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Superpowers, Anglo Saxon and Norman England - Coggle Diagram
Superpowers
The Prague Spring 1968-9
January 1968, Czechoslovakia is in the Warsaw Pact and Dubcek introduced reforms such as freedom of speech and aims for "Socialism with a human face."
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Events
Dubcek aimed to create a popular form of communism - "Socialism with a human face." The reforms were welcomed by students, intellectuals, workers and young communists.
Brezhnev became concerned that the USSR would look weak and that these reforms would encourage other Warsaw Pact countries to break away.
And then in Aug 1968, the Brezhnev Doctrine gave the USSR the right to invade any Eastern European country that threatened the security of the Eastern Bloc and in the same month Soviet troops invaded the country and Dubcek was arrested.
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Satellite States
Consequence - Iron curtain, a formal line between the two conflicting ideologies
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Berlin Airlift
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Problem: Western powers develop policies for West Germany and set up a Derman assembly, constitution and Deutschmark.
Stalin had not been consulted and was reluctant to allow further US influence over Germany especially economically
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