hist 2117: modern germany spring 2013 lecture twenty-one: cold war and a divided germany
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HIST 2117: Modern GermanySpring 2013
Lecture Twenty-One: Cold War and a Divided Germany
Ending the War
• Allied War Aims• Teheran and Yalta Conferences• Peace Principles• United Nations• Territorial Settlement• Occupation Zones
Chaotic Conclusion
• Russian Retribution• Heimatvertriebene• The Toll of Destruction• Potsdam Conference• Spread of Communism
De-Nazification
• Local De-Nazification• Destruction of Symbols• Accommodation with Local Authorities• Nuremberg Trials
The Cold War
• Solidification of Occupation Zones• Truman Doctrine• Czechoslovakia• Marshall Plan• Berlin Airlift• Soviet A-Bomb Test 1949
Two Germanies
• Walter Ulbricht -- Sozialistische Einheitspartei (SED)• Russian Reparations• Konrad Adenauer -- Christlich-Demokratische Union
(CDU)• Ambivalence of the SPD• Currency Reform • Formation of Federal Republic -- Basic Law• First Election 1949• Selection of a Capital
East Germany
• Establishment of German Democratic Republic (DDR)
• Introduction of Five Year Plan• Workers Uprising 1953• Escape to the West• Building the Berlin Wall
West Germany
• The “Wirtschaftswunder”• The End of De-Nazification• Reintegration into the Democratic West• From European Coal and Steel Community to
European Economic Community• NATO and Germany as Front Lines of Cold War