Berlin was a focal point for changes. the fall of the Berlin wall which will always be remember as the end of "The Cold War". this made west available to the middle east resulting in widespread chaos. Having sustained staggering lose during the war, USSR was determined to establish a buffer zone in eastern Europe. ... Alarmed by the ruthless imposition of communist government in eastern Europe and by the vulnerability of the western government that laid in economic ruin, u.s. secretary of state at the time George c Marshall came up with a program called North Atlantic Treaty Organiz...

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But the most important ones are the ones which were located in Eastern Europe (Poland,Estonia etc.). ... The ethnic conflicts had caused great troubles in Bosnia, Kosovo and many places in Eastern Europe so many wars in Caucasia and middle Asia are expected. ... The collapse of communism had also caused many nationalist competitions in Eastern Europe. The West should encourage the former Eastern Europe Communist States (satellites) to build up capitalist systems and have more relations (trade etc.) with the Western Europe capitalist countries. ...

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For one Harald and Konrad's family are working class and in stark contrast to the middle-class Sophie and thus could possibly not make a transition to the west. ... We see Harald arrive in a train station where he only sees homeless people drinking, a man threateningly asking for money only to dismiss what he receives as "bloody eastern money" and general urban decay. The mis-en-scene of the scene is dark and threatening and in direct contrast to the utopia many eastern Germans no doubt believed the west was. The scene hints at the disillusionment felt by many eastern Germans in the month...

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When World War II ended a post war Europe was divided between Western Democracies and Soviet army occupied nations of Eastern Europe. In the middle of it all lay Germany, divided and occupied by the four allies. ... During 1948 the government of Eastern European countries were under communist control. ... The death in March 1953 of Soviet leader Josef Stalin undermined the positions of many communist leaders in Eastern Europe and gave the peoples of East Europe hope that regimes would be liberalized. ...

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Winston Churchill warned that an "Iron Curtain" was descending the middle of Europe, the Cold War began. ... The people of Hungary and the rest of Eastern Europe were completely ruled over by communist Russia. ... Although Stalin died in 1953, Moscow's control over Hungary and Eastern Europe did not weaken. ... The Soviets permitted the collapse of the communist regimes in Eastern Europe in the late 1980's and early 1990's. ...

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By the end of the war Germany was in the middle of a disaster waiting to happen. When WWII was over Germany was divided into four parts, which was United States, Great Britain, and France controlled the three divisions that were formed in the Western half, and the Eastern half was controlled by the Soviet Republic. The Western division united to make a federal republic, while the Eastern divisions became communist. ... The Soviet Union was in control of the eastern half of Germany. ...

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Turkmenistan is a country located in the Middle East and somewhat in central Asia. ... Turkmenistan is filled with beliefs but eighty-nine percent of all people are Muslim, and most of those people are Sunni, nine percent of all people in Turkmenistan are eastern orthodox, and two percent of all people in Turkmenistan are non-religious. ... The Shia Sunni clash consists of almost all of central Asia, the middle east, and northern Africa. ... Turkmenistan is located in the Middle East and central Asia. ...

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He stars from the ancient Rome 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 each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of...

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He stars from the ancient Rome 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 each other: Bourgeoisie and Proletarian. ... Leaders of the former Soviet Union and some Eastern European nations decided to abandon government ownership and control of the means of...

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Nevertheless, by the middle of the 1960's Hungary was one of the most industrialized states of Eastern Europe. ... The increasing importance of international trade in the Hungarian economy and the different composition of Eastern and Western trade have presented special problems to the economic planners. ...

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With the U.S.S.R having all of Eastern Germany, which held the city of Berlin. ... To many people that lived in the Eastern half of Germany nothing changed. ... They had Hitler during the war and then in the post war Eastern Germany had Stalin in charge. ...

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From the times of the Anglo-Saxon wars of pre-middle ages to the struggle for hegemonic power with Spain and France over colonization rights and the system of mercantilism. ... The rise of the imperialistic attitude in the middle ages led England to flourish as a global power for centuries and became one of the most influential national powers the world has ever seen. ... The treaty was a major response by the west in order to combar the cold war against the aggressive threat of a continued mobilized Soviet military presence in Eastern Europe. ...

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As stated before, however, the experience of the Yugoslavs during WWII was much different than that of other Eastern European countries. ... This is due to the fact that any attempt to do so would immediately see an outpouring of support from non-communist countries that want to see Yugoslavia stay in the middle. ...

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Stalin Essay Stalin's Childhood The man who the world would come to know as Joseph Stalin was born Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili, on December 21, 1879, in the Georgian village of Gori, a small town in the southern reaches of the Russian Empire. He was the third child born to Vissa...

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Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. ... With these two different pacts, Europe was torn in half, Western Europe being with NATO and Eastern Europe with the Warsaw Pact. ... Behind that line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe. ... With the Berlin Wall being built in 1961, through the middle of Berlin, the countries East Germany and West Germany were formed. ...

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One cannot help but feel fortunate to live in a country such as Canada; its richness and prosperity go relatively unequaled in the world. Canadians, to an extent, have lived a life of sheltered ignorance when compared to the lives experienced by those in other nations. The problems that the greater ...

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