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Expected 5 megatons but 15 instead
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1.6 megatons
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Destalinisation, long-term political stability, econ growth + improved living conditions
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USSR tanks repressed revolts
Nagy agreed to ceasefire, assured loyalty to USSR
Nagy then supported rev - destroyed comm offices + killed secret policemen -
Workers in Poznan demanded bread, liberty and freedom for Church + end of USSR domination of Poland - Polish army killed 74 people.
Polish communists hated repression- chose Gomułka as new leader.
USSR feared Poland would leave Warsaw Pact - USSR army + Khrushchev to Poland.
Gomułka promised not to leave WP - secured greater freedom of action, Soviet troops withdrawn
Allowed own road to socialism
West powerless -
USSR realised US wouldn't intervene
USSR entered Budapest + crushed uprising
Nagy executed
4000 killed + 20,000 fled
Janos Kadar new leader
Arrested 35,000
USSR increased divisions in Hungary - 2 to 4 - Hungarian gov had to pay for troops -
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8800km to deliver warheads
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USSR first and mightiest of socialist countries
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First USSR satellite to orbit moon successfully
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Cancellation of 1960 Paris Peace Talks
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Wanted US to remove troops from West Berlin
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Against Diem imperialism - was seen as a US puppet
10 Point Programme -
Lasted 108 minutes
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50 megatons
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Forced relocation of SV peasants in fortified hamlets to protect/isolate from Vietcong
3000 hamlets with 1 mil people by end of 1962 -
Protests + Repression
9 killed
First monk burned himself -
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Nhu and Diem assassinated