Eastern Cape

The Berlin Wall Today people belong to the CNN generation. Any time an event happens in the world today people turn to CNN. In recent years, the Gulf War, and the events in Bosnia have been headliners. In 1989, one event monopolized the airways of CNN, THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL. I remember seeing this, and thinking how little I knew about this event. The fall of the Berlin Wall succeeded in one aspect that today is still not been rectified; The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into two

defined as the period of time whereby both powers were simultaneously hostile to each other and the idea of peaceful cooperation could not exist anymore. Churchill’s Iron Curtain Speech was a warning of Soviet influence beyond Eastern Europe. Churchill believed

Foreign Minister rejected the idea of letting the London Poles have a significant role in the government. This led to extreme disappointment because people had thought that Stalin would allow western-style governments to be set up in Eastern Europe and it also meant that people lost

An “iron curtain” of Communism spread over Eastern Europe as the post-World War II world tried to re-build Germany and Easter Europe. As the dictator Joseph Stalin sealed off the Eastern Bloc, the rest of Europe began to re-build under a democratic rule. This re-building continued and the USSR continued to keep their “totalitarian” hold on the East. As the Cold War

During the long nineteenth century, political revolutions, industrialization, and European imperialism resulted in dramatic changes in the role of women in Western Europe and Eastern Asia. As industrialization spread in Western Europe, women were no longer able to fulfill their dual role as a mother and a worker. After the introduction of industrialization, laborious tasks were moved from the household to factories and women were forced to choose either the life of a mother or the life of a worker

The Berlin Wall was constructed on August 13, 1961. The reason for this was to separate West and East Germany. People in East Germany received the short end of the stick because “to live in East Germany behind the Berlin Wall meant to live in fear and distrust” (Wagner). The Stasi (state security service) monitored citizens for fear of rebellion. Many students and college graduates tried to cross over but only a few were successful. Those who were not were fined, prosecuted, or even murdered. The

The European Union (EU) is an intergovernmental organization of states that includes 28 countries that are spread over Western Europe and more recently includes some Eastern European countries as well. Shortly after World War II various countries and governments in Europe started to grow closer together to help strengthen themselves economically as well as make it much less likely that another world war would be much less likely to happen. Over time, these Western European countries grew closer

The United States and the Beginning of the Cold War a) There were three cracks evident between the US-Soviet relationship. America and Russia argued about the opening of a second front against Germany. Stalin’s plans where that America and Britain invade western Europe so the Russian Red Army gets stronger and pressure on them is relieved. Roosevelt promised a second front by the time of 1942, but the delay of plans for an Anglo-American invasion of German-occupied

few years after declaring independence from the Soviet Union caused high poverty rates. The conflict between the two areas was later frozen, with an agreement for ceasefire, but the effects of the war were lasting. Like many other countries of Eastern Europe after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Moldova experienced many economic reforms. While Moldova was known for their successful economic reforms throughout the 1990s, the citizens of Moldova greatly suffered. Poverty remained a growing problem

After the Second World War, the Soviet Union spread their political ideology among the countries of East Central Europe. Instantly, Josef Stalin spread Stalinization across each of the countries to assert Soviet control. He created totalitarian governments with limited freedoms for its citizens. Following the death of Stalin, the new leader of the Soviet Union, Nika Khrushchev, began changing the repressive policies of Stalin, opening the doors to the countries of East Central Europe to challenge