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Once you’re in, there’s no getting out. WS-THE IRON CURTAIN. NIKITA KHRUSCHCHEV. De-Stalinization Tries to tone down the harsher elements of Soviet Communism to compete with West. HUNGARIAN REVOLT -1956. BREZHNEV DOCTRINE.
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Once you’re in, there’s no getting out WS-THE IRON CURTAIN
NIKITA KHRUSCHCHEV • De-Stalinization • Tries to tone down the harsher elements of Soviet Communism to compete with West
BREZHNEV DOCTRINE • The USSR would prevent any Communist country from rejecting communism
Czechoslovakia: Prague Spring Czech Communist leader Alexander Dubcek tries to reform: “socialism with a human face” Warsaw Pact invades
PRAGUE SPRING http://player.discoveryeducation.com/index.cfm?guidAssetId=54B2CBE0-C4D9-47BE-9CDC-BE92FA57FB9E&blnFromSearch=1&productcode=US
AFGHANISTAN – Soviet-backed regime falters, USSR invades, US boycotts Moscow Olympics 1980
SOLIDARITY -1979. Poles in Gdansk shipyard start a union – Solidarity. Call a general strike in 1981. Gov. cracks down, arrests leaders