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  • Warsaw Pact was a defensive alliance for seven satellite states and the USSR
  • Americans dropped first atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945 and Nagasaki on 9 August 1945, causing the arms race
  • Soviets developed theor own atomic bomb in 1949
  • Americans developed hydrogen bomb in 1952
  • Soviets developed hydrogen bomb in 1953
  • in 1957 USA developed ICBM to fire missiles more than 4,500km
  • in 1957 USSR launched sputnik the world's first satellite causing the space race
  • weapons became less about winning wars and more abiut deterrence because of MAD ( Mutually Assured Destruction )
  • narrative account of the Hungarian uprising?
    -after WW2 Matyas Rakosi was puppet leader of Hungary
    -1956 Hungarian protests about freedom fuel and food
    -October riots in Budapest
    -Soviets troops restored order but replaced Rakosi with Imre Nagy
    -Nagy allowed non communist reforms
    -1 November Nagy said Hungary would leave Warsaw Pact
    -Khrushchev ordered a Soviet invasion
    -4 November 1000 soviet tanks entered Budapest
    -20000 Hungarians killed
    -Nagy replaced by Kadar
    -July 1958 Nagy executed
  • what were consequences of the Hungarian invasion?
    -Eisenhower offered no military support showing containment not roll back
    -USA public criticism of event made relations worse