1# Stasiland - History 2 3## Cold war 4 5-1945 - 1991 6- USA (cap) and USSR (com) dominated after WWII 7 8 9### Communism 10- German philosophers Marx & Engels ($\approx$ 1848) 11- industrial revolution 12- response to class struggles 13 14#### Key concets of Marxism 15- determinism (belief that communism's domination is inevitable) 16- stages of history: 17-1. **slave society** 18-2. **feudal** 19-3. **capitalist** - hierarchy 20-4. **socialist** - production is owned collectively 21-5. **communism** - classless utopia 22- class consciousness 23- dictatorship of the proletariat 24 25### Origins of the Cold War 26 27- defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945 - Europe jointly occupied by Soviet Red Army (East), Americans and British (West) 28- tension between Stalin (Soviet) and American/British 29-1945 - Winston Churchill warns of "iron curtain" on Europe 30- Europe and Berlin split into two halves 31 32#### Iron curtain 33- metaphor for blocks (East and West) 34- Yalta conference - Germany divided into four zones 35- US gained economic power (commodities of gold & USD) 36- Truman Doctrine - US president, challenged communism 37- Soviets blocked West Berlin 38-1949 - Federal Republic of Germany (GDR) 39 40### Berlin 41 42- East Berlin tightly controlled by state - deprivation of essential goods 43- Ulbricht - erected Berlin Wall in $\approx$ 1953 to prevent mass exodus of E. Berlin 44 45### Fall of the Iron Curtain 46-1985 - Gorbachev's reformist policies - "openness" and "restructuring" 47- some Communist ideals approached capitalism 48-1973 - East and West Germany joined UN 49-1990 - reunification