in the Cold War. The soldiers of the Armia Kraiova were the first victims of a cold war that would last for another 40 years.3 In the summer of 1944‚ the tide of the war had long shifted. The soviets were had been making extensive progress on the eastern front of the war. In July 26th‚ the red army had liberated Lvov‚ and by August 1st Soviet Marshal Rokossovsky’s troops were a mere 9 miles away from Vistula river of Warsaw4. The Armia Kraiova‚ the underground soldiers who had been fighting since
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Throughout the GDR‚ the Stasi had profound effects on the lives of many East German citizens. The constant surveillance and intrusions on people lives were heavily seen in Anna Funder’s Stasiland. Anna Funder interviewed a series of people in Eastern Germany who encountered various difficult situations under the strict watch of the Stasi. For example‚ Anna interviewed a woman named Miriam Weber. Miriam became a prime target for the Stasi at the age of sixteen when she and her friend Ursula made
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product that stemmed from the aftermath of the post-Stalin communist movement during World War 2. The pitfalls that brought the country to turmoil also divided its people in ideas. After the Second World War ended‚ the race for influence between Eastern and Western powers clashed. The different geographic regions of Korea didn’t cave to one governmental system‚ this created conflict for political change and union. The communist north gained tremendous influence thanks to its ally Russia who appointed
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The Cold War was a time period after World War II until 1991 when there was a time between the powers in the Western bock lead by the United States of America (USA) and its allies and the Eastern Block dominated by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The two blocks lead by the two superpowers had profound economic‚ political and ideological differences. In their race for global influence propaganda became of great importance. Propaganda contributed to the outbreak of the cold war. Ideology:
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What is the Berlin Airlift? The Berlin Airlift was an international crisis in which the Soviet Union attempted to cut off West Berlin from the allied occupation zone in Germany resulting in an Allied airlift. This occurred from June 24‚ 1948 - May 12‚ 1949. The Berlin Airlift‚ also known as Operation Little Vittles‚ was done in response to Berlin blockade. The Berlin blockade by the Soviet Union was three years after World War II ended. President Truman‚ Winston Churchill‚ and Josef Stalin met at
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Fall of the Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was more than just a barrier and a physical division of east and West Berlin. It was a symbolic boundary between communism and capitalism that separated many families and friends. Between the years of 1949 and 1961‚ a steadily rising number of skilled workers‚ intellectuals‚ and professionals fled from east to West Germany. In response to this loss‚ East Germany built a barrier to close off East Germans´ access to West Berlin. That barrier‚ the Berlin Wall
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it was also divided between the four nations. France‚ Great Britain‚ and the United states controlled the western half of the city‚ later uniting their individual zones in order to form a West German State‚ while the Soviet Union controlled the eastern half. Berlin became politically advantageous and extremely important to the Soviet Union and East
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anything about the reorganisation of the Western zones or the new currency. He thought that the Allies handling of Western Germany was infuriating. He was also concerned at the likelihood of a wealthy Western Germany besides a poor‚ Soviet-controlled Eastern Germany. Stalin was under the impression that he held authority over Berlin. Berlin was deep in the Soviet zone and was linked to the western zones of Germany by vital roads‚ railways and canals. So in June 1948 Stalin blocked all these supply
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The speechs most known quote which summarizes the whole speech was‚ From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. Unfortunately it could only be taken as a ones opinion rather than a nations viewpoint‚ yet he was the first person to stop pretending to be friends with Russia. The Truman Doctrine of 1947 is believed to be the start of the Cold War. It
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Stalin could see that his former allies (and new rivals) in the West were working to build up West Germany as an anti-Soviet anchor in Central Europe‚ and in the summer of 1948 he sought to retaliate by imposing a blockade upon West Berlin. (West Berlin—comprising the British‚ American‚ and French sectors of the German capital—was an anticommunist island‚ surrounded on all sides by Soviet-controlled East Germany; the geography made it easy for Stalin to cut off access.) On 24 June 1948‚ Stalin blocked
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