tactics/ Fulton/ Greece/ Truman Doctrine/ Marshall Plan/ Cominform/ Czechoslovakia YALTA Conference (February 1945) 1. Churchill‚ Stalin and Roosevelt agreed to Divide Germany into 4 zones (France‚ Britain‚ USA‚ USSR)/ to hold free elections in Eastern European countries./ to set up the United Nations./ to set up a government of Communists and non Communists in Poland. 2. On the surface‚ everything seemed friendly‚ but there was tension behind the scenes POTSDAM Conference (July 1945) 1. At Potsdam
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western Berlin from Eastern Berlin. It continued like this for almost 30 years until it opened in 1989 and started to be demolished in 1990. The wall included guard towers which were placed along large concrete walls‚ which surrounded a large area (which would later be known as the ‘death strip’). This area contained many other defences to prevent any passing through. The wall served a purpose to stop the mass emigration that plagued East Germany and the communist eastern bloc after the Second World
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Americans thought that the Russians were aiming to incorporate Western Europe (the US & British sphere of influence) into their sphere of influence (Eastern Europe) by supporting the communists in these countries. Their fears were enforced when a "coup substituted communist for coalition rule in Prague." (Calvocoressi‚ p.15)(even though this is an Eastern European Country‚ the fact that a coup was staged against a democratic government is reason enough to raise their fears). In this ideologically
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example- Indian labor is used by a lot of companies. To an extent IKEA does follow adaptation approach. For example IKEA has opened many emerging stores in Eastern Europe. The people of Eastern Europe have low purchasing power and accordingly IKEA has offered a smaller selection of furniture to fit the cramped living style typical in former Soviet bloc countries. IKEA follows a standardized approach with a touch of adaptation approach. 2) Wal-mart would be IKEA’s biggest competitor. Wal-mart also looks
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Cold War as the product of the aggressive and expansionist foreign policies of USSR. This view has been presented by historians such as W. H .McNeill‚ H. Feis‚ and A. Schlesinger. After WW2 a power vacuum was left in a large part of central and Eastern Europe. Stalin took the advantage of this in order to strengthen the Soviet Union and spread communism. In the Yalta conference (Feb 1945)‚ Stalin demanded parts of Poland to be given to USSR. Stalin made a communist government of Poland although
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1968: Troops from the Warsaw Pact‚ an organization of communist states in Central and Eastern Europe‚ stamp out the Prague Spring uprising. 1969: Negotiations between the United Nations and the Soviet Union begin on the reduction of strategic nuclear weapons. The talks end with several treaties in 1979‚ but the arms race continues unabated. 1970: The so-called Ostpolitik‚ a policy of rapprochement with the Eastern bloc championed by German Chancellor Willy Brandt‚ begins. His policy of "change through
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known as the "death strip") that contained anti-vehicle trenches‚ "fakir beds" and other defenses. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the "will of the people" in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice‚ the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration that marked Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period. THE ESCAPE FROM EAST BERLIN Professional gangs built tunnels
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CHAPTER 1: WHAT WAS THE COLD WAR * Periods of hostility and high tension between two great post-war superpowers‚ the United States and the USSR in the period of 1945 – 1989 * An ideological conflict * A conventional and nuclear arms race * Wars fought on proxy on the battlefields on Asia‚ Africa and Latin America * Economic rivalry * Development of huge espionage networks * Harry S Truman: “the war of nerves” COMMUNISM VS. CAPITALISM THE WEST | THE USSR |
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stability. Due to the drastic difference between Becker’s perception of the fall of the Berlin Wall and others‚ Becker’s movie may not be as valid of a tool in understanding eastern Germany or the mindset of the Germans re-entering life under a capitalist nation. Thus‚ Goodbye Lenin! offers interesting points of focus on the lives of eastern Germans returning to capitalism. However‚ the director’s thoughts on the period following German reunification are very different from other accounts from other Germans
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Lord of the files is an allegory to modern society An allegory is the expression by means of symbolic fictional figures and actions of truth or generalizations about human existence (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/allegory.. N.p. Web. 7 Dec 2012). Authors use allegory to show the world and how we know it through there literature. The story itself doesn’t have to good but the allegory is behind it that keeps the reader interested in the story or novel. Most authors of allegory use
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