Eastern Catholic Churches

absence was greatly noticed. For example, the East version of Coca-Cola was called Vita-Cola. Although they were very similar, sometimes it was the little things that people really missed (Aranda). Today, some Germans will even pay extra to have the Eastern vintage style Cola, simply for sentimental reasons. East Germany can also be visited today. The people of Germany can go to the many tourist attractions to reminisce about the old ways of East Germany. Because of many of these small…

Latin America before this recent trend was seen as making economic progress and having improved democratic governance by many of the centrist governments. Although the nation has recently enjoyed its best two years of growth in a long time, times have changed and it seems Latin America has noticed this change. In Venezuela, all leaders, parties or movements that have been successful over the past eight years are generally labeled as “leftist.” Countries of Latin America also showed this trend,…

Following World War II there were obvious tensions between the Soviet Union and the United states. These tensions resulted in suspicions and international incidents that could have destroyed these two superpowers. The tensions stemmed from conflicting ideologies between the two nations. In 1917 during the Russian Revolution communism took over and became their form of government. In fear that United States and Britain would face a similar fate they put all of their support in the “White Army,”…

The two main student groups in the sixties were the Students for a Democratic Society( SDS), and the Young Americans for Freedom( YAF). While the two groups did not openly attack the each other, they were diametrically opposed to one another in terms of ideology, the first calling for change, the second embracing the status quo. Cold War politics dominated both groups' concerns, with the YAF equating political freedom with economic freedom, an obvious indictment of socialism( YAF, p. 1, line…

The Soviet Union is to blame for the tension during the Cold War because of Stalin’s forceful spread of communism throughout the world; eliminating the freedom of culture, self-rule, and speech and expression. The Cold War was caused by the military expansionism of the Soviet’s to grow their economic views, which ended up separating the world instead of uniting it. In the “Iron Curtain Speech,” Churchill states,“At the end of the fighting last June, the American and British armies withdrew…

In Chapter 7, we basically learned traditions, adapted foods, history, food habits, and etiquette of the Central Europe, Soviet Union (FSU), and Scandinavians. An interesting fact is that they were the earliest and largest groups to come the United States. There have been many great influences on American culture, especially in cuisine area. Many of them brought skills of bread baking, dairy farming, meat processing, and beer brewing to the U.S. They inspire others to assimilate their ethnic…

Protestant and Catholic regions of the Holy Roman Empire, the war eventually transitioned to an all-out civil war. Berlin was ravaged, with half of the population killed and one-third of the homes destroyed. When the war ended in 1648, Berlin instigated a plan to increase immigration and religious tolerance, at the heed of Great Elector Frederick William. By 1700, the population of Berlin was almost 30% French, composed primarily of Protestant Huguenots that had fought against the Catholics. One…

West the wall is nothing more than a sign of oppression, but to the East, people have come to the conclusion that the wall is more than just a sign of oppression, but a barrier to western corruption The differences between western democrats and the eastern communists include the way people think Germany is run. The construction of the Berlin Wall is an important role of European politics because without government there would be no politics. European politics would show ideas of different…

Peter Gunst focuses on why Eastern/Central Europe struggled to keep up with Western Europe technically, socially, and economically. The first peculiarity he notes is how there was no private ownership in Eastern Europe like there was in Western. Instead, the region used the idea of common land property. This isolated village communities and kept the region politically inferior to the well-connected Western Europe. These communal fields also created economic and social stasis because the system…

Therefore leading up to the decision to construct the Berlin Wall. In 1949 and 1961, there were about two and a half million East Germans that had fled from East to West Germany. Many of those people were skilled workers and had traveled to West Germany for work. It was on August 13, 1961, when the Communist government of the German Democratic Republican started to build a barbed wire and concrete Antifaschistischer or wall in between East and West Berlin. Due to this, August 13th, 1961, was…