Eastern Bloc

Beat and rock music spread all over the GDR and imported records circulated on the black market. The government finally had to accept the fact that rock and roll had become an integral part of youth culture even in the socialist bloc. At the Eighth SED Congress in 1971, Honecker announced an about-face. The needs of young people – as they were an important part of socialist society – should no longer be ignored. Therefore, music from the West was allowed to be broadcast on radio

the Eastern Bloc while the United States began a strategy of global containment to challenge Soviet power, extending military and financial aid to the countries of Western Europe (for example, supporting the anti-Communist side in the Greek Civil War) and creating the NATO alliance. The Berlin Blockade (1948–49) was the first major crisis of the Cold War. The Soviet Bloc from 1945 to 1970 consisted of the countries that owed allegiance to the Soviet Union during the cold war. The Societ Bloc chiefly

1945, the second world war has just come to an end and the allies had to decide the future of Europe. To accomplish this the allies formed the Potsdam conference, which met on August 2, 1945. The events that led up to and during the time of the Eastern Bloc can teach people many things in regard to all aspects of life. The Soviet Union was established in 1918 under a Communist regime, which replaced the old monarchy ruled by the Czar. However soon after 1918 a massive forced development of the Soviet

many smaller soviet republics joined to form a large conglomerate nation, known as the Soviet Union in 1922. Vladimir Lenin, leader at the time, replaced the failing capitalist government with a communist government. . At the end of WWII, most of Eastern and Central Europe’s countries were being occupied by the soviet army. They came to be controlled by the Soviet government and pulled back behind an “iron Curtain”. Winston Churchill’s famed Iron curtain remark refers to the countries that fell under

the cold war one of the biggest wars since World War 1 and 2. But the reason of the cold war was… The cold war was a bunch of military tension in World War 2. Also it was between the Western bloc and the Eastern bloc. But the word cold is meant as there was no large scale between the Western or Eastern bloc so one isn’t better than the other. So the cold war was basically a proxy war to where instead

turmoil. The Kingdom of Greece falls somewhere in the middle of the superpower confrontation during the Cold War. Originally, Stalin and Churchill had agreed to let Britain run a non-communist Greece, yet the nation struggled between the Western and Eastern blocs and their respective superpowers’ influence [1]. This struggle originates from the German and Italian occupation of the Kingdom of Greece during the Second World War. During this occupation, many resistance groups of different ideologies began

foreign policy will complicate the United States’ international strategy by increasing global economic competition through economic partnerships with China and small military engagements within central and eastern Europe and the Middle East. During the Cold War, Russia dominated the Eastern Bloc not only in its military capability but through its economy as well. While Soviet products were not considered to be of the highest quality, their manufacturing capability, supported by defense spending was

tensions between states, which never culminate to actual, direct warfare. However, for the purpose of this essay, we will define the Cold War as being the period of hostility that existed between two blocs shortly after World War II and divided the world into two parts: the Soviet bloc and the Western bloc. More than just a conflict, the Cold War was, as the historian John Mason pointed out, ‘a fundamental clash of ideologies and interests’ between Soviet-sponsored communism and capitalism promoted by

government was communist as well. Communism was the main thing that drove east Germans to West Germany. People such as doctors and engineers were the first to flee communism. Once the soviets found out citizens were going to the west they closed the eastern bloc borders because they wanted to prevent the people that remained in the

1989 is generally regarded as a watershed moment in the history of Eastern Europe—the one which effectively ended the dominance of Communist politics in the region formerly known as the Soviet Bloc. Comprised of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania, and East Germany, this region was politically and economically depended on the Soviet Union that largely dictated the official ideological orientation of the Soviet Bloc nations. In 1989, the region’s dependence on the Soviet Union effectively