or negative picture of life in communist East Germany? East Germany‚ its demise relayed through the mass media of recent history‚ has in popular consciousness been posited as negative‚ a corrupt bulwark of the last dying days of Communism in Eastern Europe‚ barren and silent. The other Germany to its West‚ it’s citizens free‚ was striding confidently ahead into the millennium. Recent cinema has sought to examine re-unification‚ the Wolfgang Becker film «Goodbye Lenin!» (2003)‚ a recent example
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War. Part of the reason that Berlin caused trouble was because it was divided in between western communist Germany‚ and eastern Germany. Some of the people in the western communist part wanted out of there and just simple crossed the boarder to eastern Germany. Naturally‚ the western part built a huge dividing wall between them to keep it’s people locked inside. Eastern Germany didn’t like that at all and they wanted the people to come over from the western side. So they tried to help them get
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the Cold War. By far the most influential part of the Cold War was the distrust that Joseph Stalin had between Winston Churchill and Harry Truman. The hostile relationship between the countries began when the Soviet Union would not open invade the Eastern part of Europe pushing Germany back and helping out the rest of the allies (Crash Course #39). The Cold War was a time that no one wanted to blink because they were afraid they might miss something important. The biggest hardening that started the
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communist‚ especially Soviet from 1946 to 1952. Through this confrontation between America and Soviet‚ the cold war begun around the world. Since the Soviets tried to reinforce opposing goals that were against American vision in Eastern Europe‚ the Soviets forced pressured Eastern Europe to make communism. However‚ fortunately‚ the Truman Doctrine helped those nations to stop being communism‚ and the Marshall Plan made the Truman Doctrine extended to all of Europe. In 1948‚ the cold war tension was accelerated
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After the Second World War‚ Berlin was split between the UK‚ France‚ the US and the USSR as it was decided at Yalta and Potsdam. Soon afterwards the four zones merged into two‚ namely West and East Berlin. Berlin shortly afterwards became the front for the cold war between the USSR and the West. On June 25th‚ 1948‚ the USSR set up a blockade around Berlin to try and force the Allies to give up their rights to the western part of the city. Stalin halted all traffic into and out of the Russian
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1953 showed that Ulbricht still continued a strict economy when he raised worker’s hours without increasing their pay. The protests that consequently followed demonstrated the unpopularity of traditional communist policies and that the control over Eastern Europe was based on force‚ rather than consent. This rising heavily suggests that the people of East Germany were not convinced by this smokescreen of ‘peaceful coexistence’ as they were willing to rise up against their
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France) in 1945‚ Germany was divided into four zones of occupation; the Western Allies in the west and the Soviet Union in the east. Berlin‚ although entirely in the Eastern Soviet Zone‚ was divided similarly to the rest of Germany‚ with the Western Allies controlling the western sectors of Berlin and the Soviet Union controlling the eastern sector (Williamson 2001). Each of the four countries exercised supreme power in their own zones and they began to create a new order in each zone based on their own
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War stemmed from a mutual mistrust between the United States and the Soviet Union. The lack of trust between the two nations was caused by political and economic differences‚ Stalin’s hostility‚ and Stalin’s alliance with Hitler and expansion into Eastern Europe (Fagnilli 22). While the United
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Analysis of Seven Days in May Full of indirect references of the United States government during the time of the Cold War‚ the film‚ Seven Days in May‚ is an excellent example of the problems arising within the government and the people during the time of this war. The film displays the lack of confidence in the President‚ the agreements made by the United States to the Soviet Union‚ the lack of trust the Americans had in the Soviets‚ and the moves made by the United States to protect the country
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speech at Westminster College in which he warned the World of the coming dangers of the Communist Party. While we welcomed Russia’s right to secure her western border as to prevent another attack directly upon her own soil‚ the governments of the Eastern European nations were‚ for the most part‚ police states that are governed by the local Communist Parties while receiving orders from the Kremlin. This along is another violation that is added onto the already expansive list of violations that the
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