Eastern Bloc

Pact was founded in Warsaw, Poland on March 14th, 1955. The Warsaw Pact was a Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance. This mostly revolves around “Western Germany, which is being remilitarized, and her inclusion in the North Atlantic bloc, which increases the danger of a new war and creates a threat to the national security of peace-loving states.” The passage was referring to the decision by the US and other members of NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) on May 9th 1955…

Causes of the Cold War This was a time of political, economic and military rivalry between USSR and the US. This happens after the Second World War in which problems arose due to ever-changing international power. The Soviet Union was aiming to get extra land while the United States was trying to prevent the Soviet Union from gaining what they wanted. The war was cold because the United States and the USSR used not to fight each other in a directly military conflict, instead they threaten each…

refers to the fortified border that divided Europe into Western and Eastern Europe. The Americans controlled capitalist Western Europe while the Soviets controlled communist Eastern Europe. Although tensions were high, there was no direct shooting wars between them in Europe.…

communism and capitalism (Germany and Soviet Union). What you are about to read was a drastic event that eventually lead to a turning point in history. It mostly divided as well as it isolated Germany and the world between the communist and the capitalist blocs and caused major damages to society. Before the wall existed, the citizens who lived in Berlin could freely cross the border, from one side to another. Most of them had jobs and crossed the border in a daily basis for a higher exchange…

The Cold War was a tenses time between two types of government’s capitalists and Communisms. The Cold War stated after World war 11 when the Soviet Union turn many eastern European counties to communisms. The Cold War was also between the two superpowers that derived from World War 11 the United States and the USSR. The Cold War official started at the meeting of Yalta. The tensions of the Cold War started when the Soviets sent troops to berlin and block all roads to berlin. There might…

By 1961, Berlin had long been a symbol of autonomy and endurance to Communist expansionism during the Cold War. The beginning stages of the Berlin crisis began in 1945, which marked the end of World War Two. Amid the ruins of Germany, the country was divided into four administrative sectors, one for each of the three victorious combatants, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain, and by special dispensation the French. Berlin, as a capital city, was divided similarly into four subdivisions.…

This first crisis surrounding the control of Berlin was the beginning of a sharp divide between the eastern and western way of life in the city. This divide came into full view with the forming of West Germany into one country, which became Federal Republic of Germany. Along with the melding of the western allies’ territory, the Deutsche Mark became the new Republic’s currency. With the introduction of the new currency, it became apparent that Britain, France, and the United States planned on…

Blockade prohibited trade between the two Germany’s. Some of the most normal goods being sold in West Germany along with the rest of the Western world at the time seemed so outrageous for the Germans coming from East Berlin. The cleanliness of the Eastern side was nothing like the West. The East was considered for its citizens to have lived far more inferior lives, being controlled by the Soviets during the Cold War. The Wall was controlled and constantly closely surveyed by the GDR, making it…

After the war, both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were left with a gigantic amount of nuclear weapons, compared to what they had before. Moreover, U.S. formed the military bloc, NATO, while the Soviet Union formed The Warsaw Pact. These led to proxy wars, like the Vietnam War and the Korean War. Towards the end of the Cold War-era, living standards of fallen in the Soviet Union, causing them to collapse thanks to their economic…

"By the end, the liberalization of other eastern bloc regimes caused mass demonstrations for free travel and demands or democracy," was stated in the video of TED-Ed. On the evening of November 9, 1989 East Germany tried to defuse tension by making travel permits easier to obtain. The announcement…