Berlin

Anna Funder’s literary journalist text Stasiland explores the lingering impact that the former German Democratic Republic had upon its citizens. Through investigating the struggles faced by individuals in rebuilding their lives within unified Germany, Funder acknowledges that the horrors of the GDR are still controlling those who once lived under its communist regime. Through the victims Funder interviews, she identifies that as East Germany is rebuilt, so too are its people, as they attempt to…

transported 1.5 million tons of supplies and a plane landed every three minutes at Berlin 's Templehof airport (BBC). The Russians saw that their allies were not going to give up. Russia called off the blockade. At this point is where East and West Germany became the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) and the German Democratic Republic (GDR). They each then gained rights of their own portions of the city of Berlin. The Soviets were not happy about having to give up a portion of what they thought…

Berliner’, a speech by John F. Kennedy on the Berlin Wall, has been delivered on the 26th of June 1963 in the west of Berlin. The Belin Wall was built in 1961 and divided Berlin in East and West Berlin. The east of Berlin and also the east of Europe, was controlled by the soviet Union and the west of Berlin was controlled by the Allies. The Soviet-union built the Berlin Wall to prevent people from the east to move to the west of Europe. Before the Berlin Wall many people moved away from the…

The Battle of Berlin The Battle of Berlin was fought from April 16, 1945 to May 2, 1945 between German and Soviet Forces. It proved to be the final battle of the European Theatre of World War II and resulted in the complete surrender of the German Forces along with the death of Adolph Hitler. Early in 1945 Soviet forces began to advance on the capital city of Berlin. Comprised of over 2,500,000 Soldiers, 7,500 aircraft, and 6,250 tanks, the Soviets vastly outnumbered the Germans who had…

Built by the communist government of East Berlin in 1961, the Berlin wall also known as the ‘Iron Curtain’, separated the soviet controlled communist East from the democratic West. The wall symbolised the differences between the western democrats and the eastern communist and the ways in which they believed their countries should be led. This period in time demonstrated the tensions of different ideologies between the separate systems of governments of the time; how they worked and the peoples…

Berlin Airlift: The Last Hope This is not about luxury and peace, it is about the starving and conflict in Berlin after World War 1. Berlin Airlift is what helped Germany in its time of need giving the us its excellent culture. After World War One, the Russian Soviets pushed back the Germans to Berlin where the Germans were holding up at to keep them at bay. Supplies were scarce in Berlin for the Germans; about 2.5 million people were starving and the allies had to do something about it. They…

The fall of the Berlin Wall had the greatest impact in my opinion on the fall of the Soviet Union. The wall was initially put up to keep people from fleeing East Germany. Although, the people in the East were informed differently about the actual wall’s purpose. In November of 1989, the Berlin Wall was dismantled. The wall was put in place by the East German Communist Government to keep East and West Berlin separated. People could no longer see their families or friends. It effected people who…

as Irving Berlin. Modern composers experimented with new and unusual harmonies. They developed an entirely new system of melody and harmony that was known as surrealism. Modernism branched off from well versed and organized music full of boundaries to an extremely random style of music that had no rules and limitless potential. Modern music randomly picked musical materials and joined them all in a stream of conscious much like a cluster of thoughts, with no organization.…

The fall of the Berlin Wall, which took place on November 9, 1989, was a domino for the revolutions that took place during 1989 in Eastern Europe. Moreover, this particular event was crucial to the sudden changes that unfolded in the Soviet Union, both in terms in domestic issues and international relations with the West. The fall of the Berlin Wall and its repercussions prompted three major changes for the Soviet Union: a separation in interests between the Soviet Union and the Russian…

Is it true that the Cold War began after the Berlin blockade crisis of 1948? The Cold War was described by George Orwell as “a peace that is no peace”. The lack of actual armed conflict combined with the undulating political and military tensions make identifying the start of the cold war problematic. The Berlin blockade crisis of 1948 played a large role in the onset of the Cold War, and yet several earlier episodes suggest that the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union had…