What was the context to Hungary, Berlin and Czechoslovakia

Leaders

The wider Cold War

Hungary, 1956

Stalin had died in 1953

Khrushchev had emerged as the Soviet Union’s leader

Khrushchev gave his ‘Secret Speech’ in 1956

Eisenhower was re-elected President in 1956 with a healthy majority

Khrushchev visits America in 1959

Krushchev instigated ‘peaceful coexistence’

But the Warsaw Pact had been signed in 1955 after West Germany joins NATO

The Suez Crisis, 1956

Berlin, 1961

Kennedy elected later in 1960

America getting embroiled in Vietnam

U2 spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union, 1960

A summit between Khrushchev and Eisenhower in Paris collapses before it begins

Czech4oslovakia, 1968

Kennedy assassinated in 1963 and Johnson succeeds him as President. Johnson wins the 1964 election

Brezhnev and Kosygin replace Khrushchev in 196

America now fully engaged in Vietnam with little sign of success