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East Germany's culture was strongly influenced by communist thought and was marked by an attempt to define itself in opposition to the west, particularly West Germany and the United States.
- Modern History
The history of Germany from 1990 to the present spans the...
- History of East Germany
The flag of the German Democratic Republic, 1959–1990. The...
- Flag of East Germany
Like the flags of the Weimar Republic, West Germany, and...
- Uprising of 1953
The East German uprising of 1953 (German: Volksaufstand vom...
- 1990 East German General Election
General elections were held in East Germany on 18 March...
- People's Chamber
Membership. In October 1949 the Volksrat ("People's...
- Egon Krenz
Egon Rudi Ernst Krenz (German pronunciation: [ˈeːgɔn...
- Emblem
The emblem in West Germany. The display of the East German...
- Basic Treaty, 1972
West Germany East Germany The Basic Treaty ( German :...
- Politics of East Germany
The German Democratic Republic (GDR; German: Deutsche...
- Modern History
West Germany commenced this Ostpolitik, initially under fierce opposition from the conservatives, by negotiating nonaggression treaties with the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Hungary. West Germany's relations with East Germany posed particularly difficult questions.
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East and West Germany establish a monetary union from a treaty signed 18 May 1990, effective 1 July 1990; East Germany dissolves itself effective 3 October 1990; East German Länder of Brandenburg, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, and Thuringia reestablished to become states of the reunified Germany
- Four Allies, Four Occupation Zones
- Rifts Between Soviet and Other Occupied Zones
- Tensions Lead to The Berlin Blockade
- Berlin Airlift Breaks Blockade
In July of 1945, the “Big Three” met again at the Potsdam Conference. At Yalta, the Allies had agreed to a broad framework that included the demilitarization, democratization and denazification of Germany. With the war officially over, it was time to initiate a “nuts and bolts” action plan for an Allied occupation of Germany. Instead of administeri...
From the start, the Soviets ran their occupation zone very differently than the British, French and Americans. “The Soviet army and Russian civilians had suffered terribly at the hands of the Nazis during the war,” says Boghardt. “So when it came to carrying out the joint directive of denazification, for example, they not only arrested Nazi officia...
In 1947, Great Britain and the United States decided to merge their two occupation zones in order to foster more economic cooperation between the regions. The large new territory was called “Bizonia” referring to the two zones that made up its borders. Then the western Allies took things a step further by stepping up economic aid to Bizonia and the...
The Americans, British and French responded with the Berlin Airlift, a months-long air campaign to drop food and fuel into West Berlin that ultimately broke the Soviet blockade in 1949. Later that same year, France officially merged its occupied territory with Bizonia, creating the Federal Republic of Germany, or what became known as West Germany. ...
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Sep 30, 2020 · In 1989, it was still part of West Germany (officially the Federal Republic of Germany, or FRG), a separate country from the German Democratic Republic (the GDR, or East Germany), which...
East Germany was a communist country, a one-party state. The communist party ruled all the time, elections were only for show, and all businesses were owned by the state. Like other states in the Soviet bloc, it was controlled by the Soviet Union.
Nov 8, 2019 · X (Twitter) The ghost of the Berlin Wall lives on 30 years after its collapse. It sweeps through the statistics on immigrant populations (higher in the west) and on poverty, pensioners and...
