In 1954, the Russian Government made East Germany and independent state with power to make its own internal affairs. ... The wall sealed all escape routes and forced fleeing East Germans to stay and deal with their own government. ... The new government had no intention of changing the Federal Republic Governments policy towards the East. The Brandt government decided to overturn two decades of West German foreign policy and to recognize the territorial status in Europe, including the division of Germany. ... The Federal Republic Government linked its ratification of the German-Soviet treaty w...

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The question was how to deal with Germany. ... They were to convince the German people they have been defeated and that they now must be held responsible for the actions of their government (Dept of State pg 49). ... Also, local self-government will be restored and no central government shall be put in place for the time being (Dept of State pg 49). ... In Western Germany, a new style of government was introduced to the people. ... This democratic government is going to be a very conservative one because of all the restrictions that were placed on the German people and German industries. ...

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Plan of Investigation The purpose of this investigation is to assess the reasons why on-tract workers were sent to the German Democratic Republic and will be set by a time frame from 1980-1990. ... Even by trying to correct the lack of skilled workers through mobilization measures, the labour reserve of the GDR was behind the demand of the East German national economy, and, most importantly, far behind the economy of the competing Federal Republic of Germany (FRG). ... Still, the study is limited as it only relies on agreements and analyses published by the German and Soviet governments. An...

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Germany's condition after the Second World War was harrowing. ... Clay listed some problems "which cannot be resolved in Berlin without inter-governmental decisions." ... Power and government seemed to act arbitrary in this city where two superpowers could divide a city and decide to take the freedom of the population of the Eastern side of Berlin and build a wall around them. The German capital became the scale model of Europe. ... He goes on with warning of the Soviet interests to takeover West Germany and to "communize the whole of Germany". ...

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Many of these people were from East Berlin, and the government of East Germany knew that they couldn't afford to loose all of these people. ... The people of East Germany were trapped in East Germany. ... He told me that he heard that 1 out of every 6.5 citizens of Berlin were spies, and if someone was caught talking about the government they would be severely punished." ... After Gorbachev got his point across to many people, and even many government officials, the end of the Cold War was in close sight. By September 10, 1989 the Hungarian government had opened the border for the Eas...

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The three Western zones were united as the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). ... Unlike Germany, however, it was allowed its own central government. ... At Yalta, Stalin had promised to include non-communists in the new Polish government and to hold free elections. ... The provisional government, established in Poland at the end of the war, was controlled by communists. ... When elections were finally held in Poland in 1947, the communists" provisional government claimed victory. ...

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Britain wanted Germany to recover. ... The main issues discussed were the frontiers of a postwar Poland and its future government. ... As the Russians pushed the Germans out of Poland they backed the establishment of a communist government in Lublin, even though there was a Polish government-in-exile in London. ... This new government should then be called the Polish Provisional Government of National Unity- (15). ... It was agreed that countries occupied by Germany, including her allies, were to be free to elect their own governments. ...

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As well, all of the nations involved shared the common goals of implementing democratic systems of government and moving to market economies. ... The peoples involved were not looking to affect a narrow set of policy reforms; indeed, what was at stake was a hyper-radical shift from the long-held communist ideology to a western blueprint for governmental and economic policy development. ... While tremendous changes are evident in both the governmental and economic arenas in Europe, these changes cannot be assumed to always be "mutually reinforcing" (Preuss 47). ... The Federal ...

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During the First World War on March 1918 the peace treaty was signed between Russia (Bolshevik Central Committee) and Central Powers (Germany, Austria- Hungary, Bulgaria, and Turkey) where the Germany had heading role in the Brest- Litovsk. ... Also, Max Hoffman had very important role in Germany. ... In the revolution of 1917 the left Socialites Revolutionaries formed the government and had more support than Bolsheviks, wanted to appeal to Russian people by becoming free fighters against aggressors. ... Lenin expected that if the German development continued the regime would be ousted. ... Ru...

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These three parts formed West Germany. when all the land was divided the Soviet Union controlled East Germany. ... In East Germany there was almost nothing. ... At noon the riots had gotten really bad and the workers from East Germany were marching through the Brandenburg Gate into West Germany with to combine with workers from West Germany. ... 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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In November 1917, almost immediately after the Bolshevik takeover, Lenin set up a government called Sovnarkom, short for ˜Council of Peoples' Commissars, and made himself chairman. ... Peace negotiations began on December 22 1917; a week after an armistice had been confirmed between Russia and Germany. Foreign Secretary Richard von Kulhmann represented Russia, but the German General, Max Hoffmann, was clearly the most important figure in shaping the peace. The German demands were excessive. ... They would have to pay reparations of 6 million marks to Germany. ...

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The people believed the change they sought could be accomplished by voting in the Labour Government. ... The Labour government started the groundwork for the release of their land outside the motherland starting with India. ... "While the Western Allies wanted a strong Germany at the center of Europe, Stalin was determined that the Germans would never threaten his nation again." ... Because of Stalin's refusal to reunify Germany, the Western Powers attempted a unification of their parts of Berlin and other German territory to form the Federal Republic of Germany, later known as West Ger...

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On July 5, 1914, Austria sent a request to Germany, stating that if Russia and Austria were to enter a war, Austria would have Germany's full support. ... On August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and France, ordering a general mobilization of the German mobility. 2. ... During the war, the major feminist groups were committing themselves to supporting their government and in return, they anticipated that due to their efforts, women's suffrage would come to an end. ... During the war, Germany was blocked off, prevented from obtaining the goods and raw materials they had to ...

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East Germany, Poland, and Hungary were three major examples. ... In 1953, there was an uprising in East Germany (Uprising in East Germany, 1953). ... This had concerned Stalin because the USSR realized if the West and the East Germany united, the influences of the Communist in the East Germany would lose control. ... The intention of this was to stop the flood of refugees who fled to West Germany to seek for freedom from the Communist government. ... This illustrated the weak point of the communist rule in East Germany. ...

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Communist governments sprouted all over Eastern Europe. ... As previously mentioned the Red Army swept through Eastern Europe leaving in its wake pro-Moscow governments. ... After Germany had been divided in 1945 the US, British and French merged their zones into West Germany and emerging from the Soviet Zone came East Germany. ... Firstly Germany became divided, into two. ... Also speeches like those changed the policy of governments, the USA and the USSR both enlarged their defense budgets. ...

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A totalitarian government is a "modern autocratic government in which the state involves itself in all facets of society, including the daily life of its citizens" (Bartleby). ... In Germany, Hitler led members of the National Socialist group, also known as the Nazis. ... The chaos which followed WWI allowed totalitarian governments to be founded in Russia, Italy, and Germany. ... The governments also have a monopoly of all weapons of mass destruction and guns. ... There have been many totalitarian states throughout the course of history including Germany, Italy, Russia, and China. ...

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They agreed to separate Germany. Sections of Germany under the control of the United States, France, and Britain formed the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The land controlled by the Soviet Union became the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). ... The government of East Germany built the wall to stop this exodus to the West. ... This reunited East and West Berlin and paved the way for German reunification. ...

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Manpower The German Army in the east drowned in "vast reservoirs of Soviet blood." ... His repeated military blunders "assured Germany's loss of the war." ... Weather On October 2nd 1941 German troops marched on Moscow, with only 90,000 Russian soldiers defending the capital, the government was preparing to evacuate. ... Swamped mud tracks did not support German trucks designed for French roads. ... Their success is evidenced in the occupying German forces retaining collectivized farms under German occupation . ...

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In Germanys pivotal arena. The zones of the allied occupations began to harden into political entities. 1949 the west and east German governments had been organizing and finalizing the division of the continent. ... The east German government built tank traps and ditches along their side of the wall but they said "this was just to keep their people in the country". ... After a while east Germans started to tear down the wall and reunited with west Germany in 1990 as one nation. The Federal Republic of Germany. ...

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In fact, no Russian citizen could leave the country without special government permission. ... Once in office, he took the title of Fuhrer and assumed absolute control of the government and absolute sovereignty over all Germans in Europe. ... His metaphor shows how the new German government took control of every aspect of German society, similar to Stalin's regime in Russia. It shows how all-German states were abolished, all opposing political parties ceased to exist, and how the government regulated the racial make up of the country. The government created the National Labor Front, which...

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But, the suspicion and distrust was also directed against German-Americans (Germany was the main enemy of the U.S. and its allies in World War), immigrants, and people who were considered to have "radical"" or extreme political beliefs that were thought to be "anti-American." ... The creation of the Soviet Union and its communist government led to a fear in the U.S. that communism could spread in America and the U.S. government would be overthrown just as the Russian government and its Tsar (the Russian King) had been replaced (Tsar Nicholas II was eventually murdered by the Communists along w...

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The German Democratic Republic was a communist government, which most people didn't like because they suffered under repressions of the communists. ... By 1961, the communist government knew it had to stop the exodus. ... After this huge evacuation, mass demonstrations against the government and the system in East Germany began at the end of September and lasted until November 1989. ... The new government that formed prepared a new law to lift the travel restrictions for East German citizens. A member of the new East German government was asked at a press conference when the new East ...

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In Austria and Germany there was a wave of strikes, "a spontaneous movement of workers generated by a sudden reduction of bread rations" (Julius Braunthal) however "with strikes alone you can't compel an imperialist government to sign revolutionary peace proposals" (Otto Bauer). ... One such alliance was the treaty of Rapallo with Germany "the German Bourgeois government has an implacable hatred of the Bolsheviks, but such is its international position that against its own desires the government is driven towards peace with Soviet Russia" (Lenin). ... As a re...

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The Eastern Block members were: Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Poland, the former USSR and the former Czechoslovakia. ... One major hotspots o conflict was Germany, particularly Berlin. Arguably, the most vivid symbol of the Cold War was the Berlin Wall, isolating West Berlin (the portion controlled by West Germany and allied with France, England and the United States) from East Germany, which completely surrounded it. Many East Germans risked death attempting to cross the defences surrounding the wall to reach freedom in West Berlin, and many were killed in the attempt. ... Two att...

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His opposition party having been eliminated in that way, his next challenge was to undermine the central government of Germany. ... Furthermore, he claimed that the rest of the nationalist Germans supported him in that belief that "the volkisch parties, the monarchists, and the conservatives all continued to view that same government as a collection of Jewish communists" (Flood 85). Whether or not the groups cited by Hitler actually felt that way about the central government, however, is highly doubtful. But this was neither the first time, nor the last time, that Hitler would make direct ...

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