HIS 1123 Lecture 30: Chapter 30 - The End of the Cold War, Western Social Transformation, and the Developing World.

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The end of the cold war, western social. Khrushchev had worked to cultivate a softer, more down-to-earth persona after the brutality of stalin. This softer appearance caused others in the politburo to question his leadership. Khrushchev"s key blunders were the sino-soviet split of 1960. By 1964 khrushchev was seen as weak and ineffective and was ousted in favor of. The cuban missile crisis resulted in detente between the us and ussr. Soviets supported arab nations against israel and actively supported north vietnamese. Prague spring of 1968 czechoslovakia pushing for relaxing of socialism. Reform of communist system by alexander dubcek was ended by the red army. Brezhnev doctrine established, soviets would forcibly restrain any nation attempting to abandon socialism or leave the soviet bloc. Solidarity: polish labor union led by lech wales. Called for reform {end of censorship, lift of economic restrictions, and rights of workers to organize. reined in by martial law {soviet army}

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