By the end of the war Germany was in the middle of a disaster waiting to happen. ... In East Germany there was almost nothing. ... The people of East Germany saw that they were trapped in East Germany, and if they wanted to get out they would have to risk their lives. ... The people were from East Berlin, and the government of East Germany knew that they couldn't loose all of these people. ... It stunned people from both East and West Germany. ...

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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. ... In 1961 the east Germans decide to stop the flight go to the west. ... In the summer of 1989 the Berlin wall became irrelevant when Hungary allowed east Germans to pass through their country on their way to Austria . In the fall of that year the east Germans regime was on falling down. ... After a while east Germans started to tear down the wall and reunited with west Germany in 199...

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Iran thought that the United States was planning yet again another coup to place the Shah back in power in order to access more oil, since this is what occurred in the 1950s.6 Stephen Kinzer explains in his book how the U.S. handles business in the Middle East, especially secret operations. ... The Middle East has always had struggles for power and its foreign policy with the United States was only further damaged with the coup d'état. Tradition, history, and religion shape political life in the Middle East that many outsiders would not comprehend.7 Kinzer suggests that terror ...

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In the middle of it all lay Germany, divided and occupied by the four allies. ... The Western Allies occupied West Germany and the Soviet-Union occupied East Germany. ... The East German people elected Konrad Adenuer leader of the Christian Democratic Republic. ... On August 13, 1961, East Germany leader backed by the Soviets authorized the sudden construction of a wall between West and East Berlin; where hundreds of thousands of East Germans had continued to flee to the West. ... The new government had no intention of changing the Federal Republic Governments policy towards the East. ...

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Turkmenistan is a country located in the Middle East and somewhat in central Asia. ... 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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Twelve years later they finally meet again when Konrad arrives as part of an East German scientific delegation. ... 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. ... Harald dies in what is the cruellest of ironies jumping the Berlin Wall to get to the east. The differences between the east and west culture and ideology is also displayed through the innocence of Konrad's son, who when he comes to visit in the east tells his new found sister about things he takes for grant...

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Should all countries disarm their nuclear arsenal? I personally think that they should only keep a restricted amount for use in the most extreme circumstances. To back this up I am going to raise some points about events that have happened in the past regarding nuclear products e.g. power stations...

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While twenty minutes to the west of this mountain range, you can be in the middle of a dense forrest or arctic tundra in Siberia. ... Russia is located east of Europe and west of North America, so close where some people living in Alaska or islands off of Alaska consider themselves citizens of Russia instead of the United States. ... And Russia was to advance through East Prussia to assist the French forces, yet was forced out of Eastern Prussia with a devastating defeat and loss of man power (Firstworldwar.com.). ... The first offensive Russia launched was in August 1914, against Germany i...

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The dividing line between the Free World and Communism was Germany, which was divided into East Germany controlled by the Soviets, and West Germany, which was part of the Free World. Germany was further slit down the middle by Berlin. ... As Communism neglected more and more citizens in East Berlin, they risked their lives trying to make it to the other side of the wall. ... Later that year the wall between East and West Berlin was torn down. ... The following year, in 1990, East and West Germany reunited and became the sovereign nation of Germany once again. ...

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Winston Churchill warned that an "Iron Curtain" was descending the middle of Europe, the Cold War began. ... The East (capitalist) and the West (communist) made no direct military conflict for the most part because of the reciprocated fear of nuclear warfare. ... The Cold War ended with the collapse of the Berlin Wall, and the reunification of East and West Germany. ...

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The Bolsheviks were mainly people of the middle class or workers. ... Communism had spread across Europe and the Far East; some countries may have not adopted Communism but had used many of its ideas. ...

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The leaders of the Soviet Union decided that the only way to prevent the total collapse of their economy and country was to seize the oil rich Middle East. ... Bob Toland was a middle-level analyst at the National Security Agency. ...

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During the year 1917, two revolutions took place in Russia. The February revolution of 1917 led to the defeat of Czarism, and a republic was established in its place. However the October Revolution of 1917 established the dictatorship of the proletariat (i.e. the laboring class). The February revol...

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Also after the war, Germany was divided right through the middle of Berlin, Germany. West Germany was democratic and East Germany was communist. ... Therefore, in 1955 Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union signed the Alliance Treaty in Warsaw, Poland, known as the Warsaw Pact. ... With the Berlin Wall being built in 1961, through the middle of Berlin, the countries East Germany and West Germany were formed. ... East Germany was involved in The Warsaw Pact, while West Germany was in NATO. ...

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The East took over all of the communist values that we look at the U.S.S.R for. ... This split of Germany and the ideological differences between the East and the West laid some of the groundwork for the Cold War. ...

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They became factory workers and turned into a new middle class. ... Looking to the Far East, Nicholas saw potential in Port Arthur, a strategic warm-water port on the Pacific Ocean in southern Manchuria (northeastern China). ...

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The most characteristic feature of the Cold War, indeed the very reason behind the name, is that superpowers were afraid of the potential consequences between them, as epitomized by the fear of nuclear Armageddon.  As a result, both sides were dedicated to fighting the battle through proxies rather than directly. These proxies usually took the form of communists or nationalist rebels that were financed and armed by the Soviet Union and the USA respectively. Throughout this era however, the phrase 'history repeats itself' comes to mind. Both the superpowers seemed to make recurring...

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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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