... fall helps modern students relate to its symbolic role as an "Iron Curtain" (Rise). The Berlin Wall was erected for one main reason: to keep East Berliners from escaping to West Berlin. After WWII, Berlin, the capital of Germany, was a ruined city. The WWII victors, the United States, Great Britain, France, and the Soviet Union, divided Germany and Berlin in four sectors ... a communist dictatorship. By 1948, the Soviet Union and democratic allies began to fight over how to govern Berlin, and on April 1, 1948 the Soviet Union blockaded routes in and out of East Berlin which trapped some...

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... Winston Churchill's speech where he described an "Iron Curtain" which was an imaginary line that separated the East and the West. The East was the Soviet Union and its countries of influence. The West was the United States and their major allies being Canada, France, Britain, and Japan. The ... against each other. Many of the people living in East Germany were unhappy with the conditions there. Rules restricted their freedoms, but there were no such rules on the other side of the city so thousands crossed over the freedom and capitalism of West Berlin. The government of East Germany buil...

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... country (459). "Moreover, the open border and possibility of flight to the West placed certain constraints on the entire 'construction of socialism' in East Germany" (460). These circumstances caused a loss of labor force, directly impacting the economy of East Germany. In order to prevent the migration of individuals, on 13 August 1961 the city of Berlin was segregated in two by a wall built under the orders ... of the GDR leader, Ulbricht ("A World Divided"). "The ... ...

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... European Recovery Program was announced and created in 1949, its purpose was to rebuilt European countries by creating a stronger foundation for the allied counties of Europe. United States even offered money to communist countries in Europe, including the Soviet Union. By rebuild Europe after World War II to prevent ... supplies going into Berlin because they controlled East Germany where Berlin was. They said the road was blocked because it was under construction, but United States used planes loaded with food and other supplies to deliver and rescue the allied controlled parts of Berli...

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... pass into Austria through Hungary and then onto West Germany. This was in clear defiance of the Berlin wall and communist authority But rather than being sparked by an internal revolt, the regime itself initiated this event. Furthermore, the autumn of 1989 brought tens of thousands of East Germans feeling to West Germany which in turn led to mass demonstrations (i.e. Leipzig). As ... the people cheered for democracy and an end to the Communist Party, Gorbachev indirectly supported them by denying East Germany of any Soviet aid. Exhibited here "Soviet-communism" metamorphosing to create ...

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... increased Soviet-Western mistrust. The Teheran Conference, November 1943 Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at the Teheran Conference in Persia (Iran). This was the first meeting of the Big Three. They made a number of important decisions concerning Allied co-operation in the war. They agreed that the Soviet Union would destroy Nazi forces in eastern Europe, leaving western and southern Europe to ... the British and the Americans. To improve Soviet-Western relations, Churchill agreed to let Soviet Union take parts of Poland and East Prussia after the war. Churchill and Roosevelt confir...

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... limitations. The five nations also lost some territories. The Settlement of Germany After the war, the decisions made in various wartime conferences concerning Germany were put into effect. Germany was divided into four occupied zones. Territories annexed by Hitler were restored to their former owners and Germany lost territory in the east to Poland and the Soviet Union. German war criminals were ... no longer seemed possible. In 1949, Germany was divided into two states. The three Western zones were united as the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The Soviet zone became the Germ...

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... free elections within Poland. Stalin's failure to follow through with his promise led to the rising tensions between the U.S and the Soviet Union. According to George F. Kennan, the main goal of the United States was to prevent Russian Expansive Tendencies (Doc.3). The Soviet Union had shown a clear interest in creating many satellite states to bring under their control in areas such ... COMECON (Council for Mutual Economic Assistance) which was intended to dominate small eastern states that had showed interest in the Marshall plan as well as show Soviet domination in the east (Doc. 10)...

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... by peaceful means through negotiations."" By 1961, the East German problem of the mass emigration had reached its peak. East German President Walter Ulbricht informed his Soviet ally of the need for immediate action. The building of the Berlin Wall, separating the city into east and west, was the Soviet-East German solution. Concerning the Berlin Blockade of 1948 I am of the rigid traditionalist mold. My confident stance concerning ... this event is simply based on moral righteousness. The Soviet strategy that attempted the mass starvation of 2,500,000 innocent Germans ... ...

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... area, the treaty countries exercise control over a humungous bulk of the strength of the free world, and what happens in Western Europe has direct and immediate political and economic repercussions in Africa, the Middle East, the Far East, and Latin America. Thus the treaty will serve to ... benefit us militarily, while also increasing our influence and friendships to countries worldwide. Militarily NATO will aid us tremendously. It will unite Western Europe with the United State's and provide a unified front against any soviet attack. Furthermore it will greatly increase the bargaining ...

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... in Hitler's documents, though. Everything was starting to change. Right after the begging of the war on 7 October 1939 Hitler issued a decree where he gave Himmel permission to deport all Jews from Greater Germany to the east and to resettle them together with 2 million Polish Jews under the German law. ... Although his plan was working, he had to stop with the number of only 4.700 Jews deported from Austria and Bohemia, as their presence ... evidence. From that point all decisions were made privately and Hitler was giving ambiguous speeches. Under his approval Jews were transported and...

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... between Communists and non-Communists nations. On one side are the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its Communists allies, often referred to as the Eastern bloc, which by the mid 1950's included East Germany, Albania, Hungary, Poland Romania, China, Czechoslovakia, Poland, and ... Bulgaria. On the other side is the United States along with its democratic allies, including Canada, France, West Germany, the Philippines, Japan, Great Britain, and many other countries of Western Europe ... with attempting to sop revolutionary activity in other countries. Another contribution to the ...

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... He also felt that Russia needed to be appeased in order to gain their support in the war against Japan. To the surprise of Roosevelt and Churchill, Josef Stalin failed to keep his promises. He quickly prevented popular elections in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and ... from Europe by distance. Across the iron curtain, Stalin was disassembling the factories of Poland and East Germany and literally rebuilding them on Russian soil. It was an amazing but devastating accomplishment. Part of his collectivization plan moved peasants and factories to the cities. The factory re- ... l...

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... in US Dollars. It was not so easy for America to take leadership economically because there was different society ideologically, like Soviet Union, East Germany and Main Land China. There were two World Wars, which Involved many countries. America helped other countries no matter how different their ... Americans ideology religiously, and some religious group like cult groups caused terrorist acts in America like in September 11, 2001, which killed thousand of innocent people who worked in World Trade Center in New York. America has to fight against terrorism in some countries like Arab. ...

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... were all democratic nations while those in the east were communist. This clearly demonstrates the idea of promoting political ideologies in a superpower's sphere of influence. This formation of American alliances in Europe also helped the American policy of containment of soviet Expansion in Europe. It prevented the communist ideas of the east from coming into the democratic west. The establishment of spheres of influence can benefit a superpower economically, and can ... form friendly relations. Along with this, spheres of influence allow the promotion of political beliefs and ideologi...

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... Ancient Greece; they got involved in economic relations, established embassies and helped each other or fought in war. After 1648, we could how the development of the international system became a "globalized system". World wars impacted in a global scale, although world war 1 and world war 2 took place ... this fighting. World War 1 began on July 28, 1914, when Austria-Hungary declared war to Serbia. War finally ended in the late fall of 1918, after the central power countries signed armistice agreements. World War 2 began in September 1939, when Chancellor Adolf Hitler, invaded Poland. ...

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... travel the country. During this time views changed from liberal Democrat to conservative Republican. In 1966 Reagan's political career began. He ran for Governor of California and won by a landslide, and was re-elected in 1970. Running for president was the next step to his political career. When he ... and strengthen national defense. Sandra Day O'Connor was the first women appointed to the Supreme Court, and she was appointed by Reagan. In the fall of 1982, the nation went into recession and as many as 9 million people were unemployed. Among the recession, tax reductions, and increase ...

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... will be included. To a certain extent ideology can be seen as the driving force behind the outbreak of the Cold War. Ideological struggle between Capitalism and Communism was a definitive fact that stimulated rivalry: the USSR wanted to shape the future and reconstruction of the East in relation to the communist ideology; while the USA wanted post-WWII world scenario to be shaped by ... capitalist ideas. Historians such as Henry Kissinger (former U.S. Secretary of State), define the Cold War as a battle between the superpowers for supremacy in ways ... of thinking. In addition, he stat...

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... where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing ... population as compared with rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian an...

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... Western broadcasts in order to maintain control over its population. The Communist ideology, which had stimulated the Cold War on the Soviet side, deteriorated gradually. By the 1940s the slogan of `World Proletarian Revolution' had already disappeared from Soviet propaganda. After 1970, the Soviet leaders preferred not to mention such words as `Communism' or `cl! ass struggle'. And ... of the revolutionary features of Communist ideology. The weakening of that revolutionary appeal had led to the deep transformation of Soviet foreign policy, thus paving the way for the end of the Cold Wa...

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... came to an unexpected surprise to military tactics, trench warfare. Trench warfare is warfare in which the opposing forces attack and counterattack from a relatively permanent system of trenches protected by barbed-wire entanglements. For three years the Germans and the allied did not advance more than a few miles along the line that became known ... from the war. As for in World War two, Hitler tried to expand and tried to incorporate Rhineland, Austria, Sudetenland, and the acquisition of Lebensraum for Germany. He was able to move quickly with his fast military tactics, but this lead ...

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... where we have patricians, knights, plebeians and slaves; then in the Middle Ages, feudal lords, vassals, guild-masters, journeymen, apprentices, serfs and we came in our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, possesses which it has simplified the class antagonisms: Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing ... population as compared with rural, and has thus rescued a considerable part of the population from the idiocy of rural life. Just as it has made the country dependent on the towns, so it has made barbarian an...

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... mainly Hitler's responsibility because his calculations went wrong? Yes, indeed it was. Bat there were also some strong factors, that led to such a fatal for Germany end of War, such as weak and unreliable allies - Italy and Japan, unexpectedly strong and stubborn enemies, but mainly, as I mentioned before, Hitler's massive miscalculations and failures. ... upon London and other cities. That time German did not appeared to be so successful. Although it was not loosing, it still could not get a control of the sky. We can not say that Br was in a pleasant position, but thanks to new techn...

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... 's political incursions into Eastern Europe caused unnecessary conflict between Russia and the West. By 1948, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Albania and Yugoslavia all had Communist governments. The setting up of pro-communistic regimes in this region appeared to the West to be a direct outlash against them, because all the allies had agreed in Potsdam to allow democratic elections ... of governments in East Europe. This was further reiterated by the Berlin Blockade in the same year, when Stalin blockaded the German city of Berlin for 11 months in response to the all...

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... brightening Britain's future. His most important aim was to reform Britain's economy and therefore improve the social conditions. Labour was a Socialist form of government in that it hoped to aid all citizens, with ideas including free healthcare and more jobs, no matter what class. These had long ... turned this down and ran a successful campaign, making them appear strong and capable. The Labour government started the groundwork for the release of their land outside the motherland starting with India. They realized the difficulty and expense involved in keeping the Indians at bay as th...

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