Berlin and West Berlin apart. East Germans had a different idea in mind and that was to flee going into West Berlin. After the
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FLYIN’ WEST by Pearl Cleage A Guide for Study Montclair State University Theatre Department Feb 24– 27‚ 2005 Flyin’ West Study Guide Prepared by Catherine Rust‚ Dramaturg TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction …………………………………………………………………1 Play Synopsis ………………………………………………………………..1 Historical Context A Country Divided ………………………………………………….2 Slave Life ……………………………………………….…...3 Seminole Culture ……………………………………………4 Emancipation Proclamation …………………………………………4 Reconstruction ………………………………………………………5
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Professor’s name Date THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL 1988-1989 Investigating the history of Germany‚ I should admit that the period from 1988 till 1989 was a turning-point. On the 9th of November‚ 1989 the Berlin Wall‚ which separated East Germany and West Germany‚ fell. So‚ these two parts of the country combined again. There were a lot of people who were waiting for such an event. Because one the most dangerous period of German History had already finished. It lasted for almost eight years old. It
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occupied territories! There was a war! We won the land in the war! It’s our land now” (Sacco 264). Her frustration is understandable. After all‚ Israel has offered six compromises to Palestine throughout the span of the conflict‚ many including giving the West Bank and the Gaza Strip to Palestine. How come Palestine hasn’t accepted? After all‚ Sacco makes the desire of the Palestinian people clear in his comic book. The answer: the government. Palestine has a history of having a corrupt‚ insecure‚ greedy
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Democratic Republic in1961‚ which completely cut West Berlin off from East Berlin and Eastern Germany. The wall was built to separate and prevent people from fleeing from the Communist East to the Capitalist West. The wall stretches for 198Km and is approximately 3.6m high and 1.2m wide. The wall included guard towers placed along the large concrete wall. This set aside a large area around the wall – which came to be known as the death strip. View from the West Berlin side of Graffiti on the wall in 1968
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HISTORICAL INVESTIGATION To what extent did Gorbachev’s reform movement lead to the fall of the Berlin wall in East Germany? Anupriy Kanti Candidate Number – 001425-027 Dhirubhai Ambani International School Word count: 1913 Anupriy Kanti Candidate Number – 001425‐027 IB Historical Investigation Page Contents A. Planning of the Investigation .......................................................................................................
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an oath of loyalty directly to Hitler. West German Constitution called Basic Law because they hoped it would be temporary and East and West Germany would reunite. There were no “emergency powers.” The President’s powers were reduced. Reduced the number of political parties. Improved representative government. West Germany became a parliamentary democracy. Berlin Airlift During the Cold War the Soviet Union put a blockade in place in hopes that West Berlin would need to start relying on the
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East and Western‚ lost their jobs. Those who had invested into real estate were devastated by the loss‚ and much like in the crash of the stock market‚ some resorted to suicide. Trade between East and West Berlin was abruptly halted‚ and some in east Berlin starved due to the their dependance on the west. Poverty was a familiar sight in Eastern Germany‚ and a paragraph from an unnamed author depicts
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better off asking for someone to shoot me than to make it out of here alive. I have only one chance. At least that is how I imagined it would have been like if I were in trapped in the tribulations of East Berlin trying to escape into the desired West Berlin between 1961 and 1989. However‚ it is a gray December day in 2004‚ and if it weren’t for remains of the Iron Curtain and Checkpoint Charlie‚ people would not be able to relive that part of history or be reminded of the dictator that destroyed
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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‚ was began to be built on the night
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