The Cold War - Reading Community Schools
... The West Germans called it Schandmaur, the "Wall of Shame." It was rebuilt at least three times – each time bigger and stronger. Towers, guards, and dogs guarded the territory. A pipe that was too large in diameter for a climber's grip ran along the top of the wall. "Forbidden zones" were created be ...
... The West Germans called it Schandmaur, the "Wall of Shame." It was rebuilt at least three times – each time bigger and stronger. Towers, guards, and dogs guarded the territory. A pipe that was too large in diameter for a climber's grip ran along the top of the wall. "Forbidden zones" were created be ...
The Berlin Wall
... ● German Democratic Republic (GDR) supported the Berlin Wall ● Citizens of Berlin and the US opposed it ...
... ● German Democratic Republic (GDR) supported the Berlin Wall ● Citizens of Berlin and the US opposed it ...
Berlin Wall Notesx
... ● 1948 East and West Berlin governments got separated. ● 1949 The US ,Canada, and Western European countries formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The US, Britain, and France created the Federal Republic of Germany (aka as a democratic West Germany). ● The Soviet Union creates the Ger ...
... ● 1948 East and West Berlin governments got separated. ● 1949 The US ,Canada, and Western European countries formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) The US, Britain, and France created the Federal Republic of Germany (aka as a democratic West Germany). ● The Soviet Union creates the Ger ...
Geography In The News™
... growing opposition movement that spread across the entire Soviet Eastern Bloc, it opened the Berlin wall to travel. For the next few weeks both East and West Germans chipped away at the wall in celebraMid-November marked the 20th annivertion and Germany was reunited. Furthersary of the fall of the B ...
... growing opposition movement that spread across the entire Soviet Eastern Bloc, it opened the Berlin wall to travel. For the next few weeks both East and West Germans chipped away at the wall in celebraMid-November marked the 20th annivertion and Germany was reunited. Furthersary of the fall of the B ...
Berlin Wall
... • Not only was Germany divided into four occupation zones (British, French, United States of America, and the Soviet Union), the city of Berlin, located in the Soviet zone, was also divided into four zones. • These zones were created by the powers and were simply “lines on a map” with no regard to w ...
... • Not only was Germany divided into four occupation zones (British, French, United States of America, and the Soviet Union), the city of Berlin, located in the Soviet zone, was also divided into four zones. • These zones were created by the powers and were simply “lines on a map” with no regard to w ...
U.S. Tries to Contain the Soviets
... • Truman wanted to stay one step ahead of the Soviets by building more deadly weapons • By the 1952, the U.S. is testing the H-Bomb • U.S. uses brinkmanship (willingness to go to ...
... • Truman wanted to stay one step ahead of the Soviets by building more deadly weapons • By the 1952, the U.S. is testing the H-Bomb • U.S. uses brinkmanship (willingness to go to ...
All you need to know about the Cold War!
... – North-Communist, supported by USSR and China. Nationalist leader was Ho Chi Minh. – South- Capitalist, supported by US. • Result= North won, Vietnam becomes Communism ...
... – North-Communist, supported by USSR and China. Nationalist leader was Ho Chi Minh. – South- Capitalist, supported by US. • Result= North won, Vietnam becomes Communism ...
Cold War OBJ. 2 - Petal School District
... struggling to rebuild from the devastations of World War II. IN 1947, Truman’s Secretary of State, General George Marshall, proposed the European Recovery Plan or Marshall Plan. Complete a Document Analysis Chart on the teacher furnished excerpt from his speech. ...
... struggling to rebuild from the devastations of World War II. IN 1947, Truman’s Secretary of State, General George Marshall, proposed the European Recovery Plan or Marshall Plan. Complete a Document Analysis Chart on the teacher furnished excerpt from his speech. ...
Cold War Germany
... refused to give in and met with Khrushchev in Austria (1961) for discussion which did not lead to any resolutions. Instead, a wall was erected and Soviet and American troops stood on either side of the wall in a stand-off manner. ...
... refused to give in and met with Khrushchev in Austria (1961) for discussion which did not lead to any resolutions. Instead, a wall was erected and Soviet and American troops stood on either side of the wall in a stand-off manner. ...
Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany), starting on 13 August 1961, the wall completely cut off (by land) West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until it was opened in November 1989. Its demolition officially began on 13 June 1990 and was completed in 1992. The barrier included guard towers placed along large concrete walls, which circumscribed a wide area (later 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 and defection that marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.The Berlin Wall was officially referred to as the ""Anti-Fascist Protection Rampart"" (German: Antifaschistischer Schutzwall) by GDR authorities, implying that the NATO countries and West Germany in particular were ""fascists"" by GDR propaganda. The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the ""Wall of Shame""—a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt—while condemning the Wall's restriction on freedom of movement. Along with the separate and much longer Inner German border (IGB), which demarcated the border between East and West Germany, it came to symbolize the ""Iron Curtain"" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.Before the Wall's erection, 3.5 million East Germans circumvented Eastern Bloc emigration restrictions and defected from the GDR, many by crossing over the border from East Berlin into West Berlin; from which they could then travel to West Germany and other Western European countries. Between 1961 and 1989, the wall prevented almost all such emigration. During this period, around 5,000 people attempted to escape over the wall, with an estimated death toll ranging from 136 to more than 200 in and around Berlin.In 1989, a series of radical political changes occurred in the Eastern Bloc, associated with the liberalization of the Eastern Bloc's authoritarian systems and the erosion of political power in the pro-Soviet governments in nearby Poland and Hungary. After several weeks of civil unrest, the East German government announced on 9 November 1989 that all GDR citizens could visit West Germany and West Berlin. Crowds of East Germans crossed and climbed onto the wall, joined by West Germans on the other side in a celebratory atmosphere. Over the next few weeks, euphoric people and souvenir hunters chipped away parts of the wall; the governments later used industrial equipment to remove most of what was left. Contrary to popular belief the wall's actual demolition did not begin until the summer of 1990 and was not completed until 1992. The fall of the Berlin Wall paved the way for German reunification, which was formally concluded on 3 October 1990.