It did not only make the two states visible but also the Cold War and the Iron Curtain, which separated Europe. This wall became the most symbolic statue for the Cold War. Nowhere else did the Cold War have a bigger impact on families and friends, who were suddenly separated, than in Berlin. ... The growing animosity and the resulting emergence of the Cold War made a unified Germany impossible. ... The struggle for supremacy without actual fighting, power games between two super powers and the constant danger of a war were given in the Berlin Blockade and did characterize the Cold War in Europ...

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World War I was an international war centered in Europe that began on July 28, 1914 and ended on November 11, 1918. ... Due to the savagery of war, Paul has immediately lost his humanitarian characteristics, and instead has transformed into a cold, merciless shell of the innocent boy he once was. ... Paul's cold-hearted and unrelentless tone portrays how cruel and inhumane he has become. ... Before the war, Paul was unfamiliar with the horrors and hardships of war, and easily connected to modern society. However, Paul has seen and committed too many barbarous and cold-blooded acts that he...

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World War II was probably one of the worst wars in the history of mankind. Among all the other wars in history, the Second World War had the highest death toll of 55,714,000 people from1939 to 1945. During World War II, two most dreaded and memorable events took place, the Holocaust and the Japanese-Canadian internment. The Holocaust was the systematic annihilation of six million Jews by the Nazi regime during World War II. ... I cannot believe how one could be so cruel and cold-hearted to kill millions of innocent people so brutally. ...

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No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. ... Both wars had similar consequences. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... War on Terrorism). ...

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No one expected the intensity of World War One and no one expected a war to erupt in the middles of the Great Depression. ... Both wars had similar consequences. ... The United States didn't even enter the war to stop the Holocaust, they entered the War against Japan, and they didn't even enter Germany until Germany had declared war on them. ... The nuclear bomb was first utilized by the U.S. to defeat Japan, and over the course of the next fifty year the U.S. and Russia had an arms race over nuclear weapons known as the Cold War. ... War on Terrorism). ...

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The Cold War engulfed the entire world for nearly half a century. ... During the Cold War, the world was engulfed in a game of "us- verses "them- ¯whichever superpower could gather the most countries, develop the fastest technology, threaten other nations with nuclear warfare, or walk on the moon first would win the race to superiority. ... When the Cold War ended in 1989 with the falling of the Berlin Wall, not only did Germany unite; globalization was introduced, establishing trade between nations: "Two nations who traffic with each other become reciprocally dependent; for if one has an ...

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Symbolically shows the two countries at war with each other, and how cold blooded Nazis are. ... The madman cold bloodedly shot and killed Joe and Hilda in front of Josh and Cassie. ... World War II began, On September 1, 1939. ... World War II had begun" ("World War II and the Holocaust" 1). ... World War II ended with over sixty million deaths. ...

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World War II left most of Germany in ruins. ... When World War II ended a post war Europe was divided between Western Democracies and Soviet army occupied nations of Eastern Europe. ... It was a conflict later known as the Cold War. There were principle causes of the Cold War on which billions of dollars were spent for weapons and propaganda, to buy friends, influence people, and try to prove oneself better than the other. ... The Start of the Cold War affected Germany immediately. ...

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The origins of the Cold War can be traced to conclusion of World War II and the disagreements between the USSR and the Western Powers. ... The communist ideology and the western reaction to it had not changed by the end of the World War II. ... Events before, and after the war, as well as conflicting ideologies and the U.S. military involvement in Japan as well as the prevailing military reality resulted in the inability of the Great Powers to solve those conflicts and led to the Cold War. ... Western allies during the First World War sent in arms and troops to support the White army to de...

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In Elie Wiesel's autobiography Night, Wiesel explains the dehumanization of Eliezer, his family, and his fellow Jews throughout World War II. ... Toward midnight, we were told to run. " This dehumanized them because the Germans made the Jews run in the cold night air with no clothes on. Later, while still running the guards tells the Jews, "The faster you run, the sooner you can go to bed, even though it was cold the guards made the Jews work for the clothes they had wear and for the bunks they had sleep in. ... Also the affects due to the vicious behavior inherited during the time spent ...

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For the most part the German officials in this movie seemed ruthless and cold. ... It is quite likely though, that in their stone cold faces, the Germans were feeling not only guilty but scared. ... All war is bad. In war people die. ... This is the nature of war. ...

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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. Having sustained staggering lose during the war, USSR was determined to establish a buffer zone in eastern Europe. Between 1945 and 1948, the soviets sponsored dictators to seize power in Europe's war-torn heart land. ...

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Standing in a line for the showers, you are cold, hungry, and humiliated. ... In the beginning of World War II these doctors refused to take part in such an explicit crime, but nearing the end they became a large part of the population of those who believed it was the moral thing to do. ...

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During the Cold War, many observers thought that all those gold medals piled up by Soviet and East German athletes were a sign that the "Free World" was in danger of losing to communism. ... In today's world, we could use a little more "war minus the shooting."...

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Germany was responsible for the start of World War II and they were partially responsible for the start of World War I. ... The question of war reparations came about as well. ... War criminals were sought after and rounded up for trial. ... They had Hitler during the war and then in the post war Eastern Germany had Stalin in charge. ... 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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As the II World War began in September 1939, Hitler was finally able to bring his dreams about setting the world free from "Jewish disease" to life. Before the war broke out, hatred for Jews and anti-Semitism were raising in society, nothing but unclear and occasional public threats were found in Hitler's documents, though. ... Decision to attack Soviet Union in the summer of 1941 taken in November 1940 intensified violent war with Jewish nation. ... Many of them were also forced to ghettos, where they died because of hunger, cold, and diseases. ... The massacre Hitler performed...

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In Spiegelman's, "The Complete Maus," he utilises an animalistic allegory in order to retell his father's story during the Second World War and the Holocaust. ... " as the Jewish people are segregated in the prisoner of war camps. ... It is only at the end of the war, once they have removed their striped pyjamas that Vladek starts "to feel human again," showing that although they are still portrayed as mice, they can relate to being humans once the mistreatment has stopped. ... In the panels that show a German soldier killing a screaming Jewish child, by swinging the c...

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Before the war began, 1939, most Jews had already begun to be sent to concentration camps, transit camps, or forced to live in ghettoes. ... By the end of World War Two, after Hitler's suicide and the overthrow of the Nazi regime, approximately six million Jews, almost two-thirds of the entire European Jewish population, had been murdered. ... Hitler did not hate Jews as much as he seemed to; he merely used Jews as a visible scapegoat so as to begin his own rise to power in the shattered remains of post-World War I Germany. ... And, to digress, Bullock as well points to certain phrases...

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However, Hitler's further expansion of the Reich without force came to an end when Great Britain declared war on Germany for the invasion of Poland, September 1939. ... World War II officially began after Hitler's march on Poland and the succession of rapid defeats and occupation of France, Denmark, Norway, Netherlands, and Belgium became known as the Lightning War due to the German Wehrmacht's ability to strike quickly with little to no resistance. ... As winter approached, the advancement of the Wehrmacht continued to slow, ill prepared for the cold Siberian winters Germany ev...

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However, after the death of Wilhelm I, Wilhelm II reigned until Germanys defeat in World War I. ... The rise of the Nazi regime in in the early 1930s brought Germany out of its economic decline with its mixed war/civil economy. ... Moreover after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the passing of the Cold War Era, the Germany as we recognize it today came into fruition. ... Interestingly enough, members of the former Wehrmacht and SS are still being tried today when questionable connections to war crimes arise. ... Much like the US too, the country is suffering from economic problems arising ...

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With temperate marine weather, Germany is usually quite frigid throughout the year with wet, cloudy, and cool summers and cold winters. ... The country was devastated by the two world wars in the earlier half of the 20th century and was occupied by allied nations until 1949 when, with the beginning of the cold war, Germany was divided into two separate states by the Berlin Wall: The Federal Republic of Germany in the west was a democratic state that sought to follow in the path of western society and became part of the EC (the predecessor to the EU) as well as NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organ...

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Germany lost territories in the east and west, abolished the Austro-Hungarian Empire, embarrassed the Germans with a "war guilt" clause, and required the Germans to pay hefty reparation payments for the damage caused by the war. Following the First World War, the Germans were left in a terrible economic state as a result of the inflation after paying the war reparations. ... This gives you some sort of idea of the state the Germans were left in following the war. ... He had Jewish men and women stripped naked, strapped to a stretcher, and immersed in ice-cold water to conduct hypothe...

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After World War II, Germany divided into four sections or zones. While this was meant to be a temporary move, the Cold War interceded and eventually the three western zones combined to form the Federal Republic of Germany while the eastern zone formed the German Democratic Republic. ...

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The American financiers were the most powerful in the world because the Entente countries depended on loans from the USA to fund their war effort. ... In addition many countries were yet to recover from the First World War. ... Another problem caused by the First World War was that of inflation. ... As John Kaynes, a British economist said, "When America sneezed, the rest of the world caught a cold." ... The situation in Germany was made worse because of the reparations they had to pay as a consequence for having started World War I. ...

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The painting, which was completed in 1850, is a testament to the bravery and courage of Washington and his troops as they battled the frigid temperature of a cold December night on their march to attack the Hessian held town of Trenton. ... It can be noted that the conditions of the cold winter had been captured as many of the men are wearing a great deal of clothing. ... The painting was later destroyed in a World War II bombing in 1942. ...

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