Built in 1961, the Berlin Wall became known as a symbol of communist oppression. [3] In the 1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech, U.S. President John F. Kennedy stated the support of the United States for democratic West Germany shortly after the Soviet-supported Communist state of East Germany erected the Berlin Wall as a barrier to prevent movement from East to West. [4] President Reagan's 1987 visit was his second within five years. It came at a time of heightened East-West tensions, caused in particular by the debate over the stationing of short range American missiles in Europe and the United States' record peacetime defense buildup. [5] Reagan was scheduled to attend the 1987 G-7 summit meeting in Venice, Italy, and later made a brief stop in Berlin.
- Why and with what consequences did Cuba enter the first World War? There are several reasons why Cuba entered World War I. The main reason all Latin American countries to join this war was because the German ships were coming and the very best port to place a ship in the Caribbean is in Guantanamo Bay. Cuba also declared war on Germany because of the fact that the United States declared war. The President of Cuba said that he felt that Cuba had a moral responsibility to support the United States.
Reagan, even before his presidency was displaying his anti-communist stance. In 1977, Reagan famously commented on a national radio broadcast “My idea of American policy toward the Soviet Union is simple, and some would say simplistic. It is this: We win and they lose”(Jarausch, K. 2012) This stand paved the way for the hard line he would draw against the Soviets during his Presidency. Reagan, throughout his time in office, anticipated that communism would inevitably collapse in on itself, he just wanted to be the man that triggered the fall. In 1981, at the beginning of his presidency, he spoke about how he planned to use his attitudes to end communism, and in turn the Cold War.
Why Was the Berlin Blockade so Important? By early 1948 Stalin had control of most of Eastern Europe. The Americans responded to this by making the Western Europe wealthy and pro-American because they saw the Soviet Union as a threat and a weak Germany could be taken over by communism and a strong Germany could act as a buffer against communism. On the other hand Stalin thought that a strong Germany could repeat the invasions on 1914 and 1941 so he stripped them of all useful equipment and machinery. In 1947 Britain and France decided to join their zones together (Bizonia) and then a few months later France joined to make it (Trizonia).
Reagan's track record proved to be very strong and included welfare cuts, decreasing the number of state employees, and halting radical student protesters. Like other GOP members, Reagan came into office promising to limit the power of government and to strengthen American military power overseas. "In this present crisis," Reagan said in his inaugural address, "government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem."(Reaganomics). On March 30, 1981, only a few short months after being sworn in, President Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton Hotel from giving a speech to a group of trade unionists at the National Conference of Building and Construction Trades Department, when he was shot by John Hinckley, Jr. Six shots were fired from a .22-caliber revolver, one hitting the President in the torso, just under his left arm. President Reagan was very lucky that the bullet didn’t explode and it missed his heart.
The ailing President Hindenburg, Germany's highly-revered military hero, sent a telegram expressing his "profoundly felt gratitude" and he congratulated Hitler for 'nipping treason in the bud'. General von Reichenau went so far as to publicly give credence to the lie that Schleicher had been plotting to overthrow the government. The army's support for the purge, however, would have far-reaching consequences for the institution. The humbling of the SA ended the threat it had posed to the army but, by standing by Hitler during the purge, the army bound itself more tightly to the Nazi regime. One retired captain, Erwin Planck, seemed to realise this: "if you look on without lifting a finger," he
One of the ways Hitler got the backing of the German people was by telling them what they wanted to hear. His use of language and persuasion allowed people to believe him and they felt involved and excited about him and his party and so were drawn into a false sense of what was going on. His clever use of scapegoats such as the Jews or the Communists helped him gain more and more support. One of the main attacks on the Communists was the Reichstag fire on February 27th 1933 for which he blamed the communists and turned people against them. Then on the 7th of April he created a new form of regional government run by Nazi officials.
I shall then look at an important aspect of the post-war environment, that of the League of Nations and the failure of Wilson to not only procure a fairer Treaty of Versailles but also the Senate defeat of the treaty and thus the league. The Issue of Neutrality Wilson's use of the public relations and in particularly his open door policy with the press allowed him the opportunity to use his progressive ideas to the fullest. He would be in regular intercourse with White House reporters to the extent that he was able to persuade them of his policies before they were able to report on them. This enabled the public to see situations from a view closer to Wilson's than would have previously been possible. When war broke out in Europe in August 1914 he was able to call a press conference in which he lectured the White House reporters on the need for them to strive for complete neutrality and urging them not to fan the flames of public opinion.1 “Of course, the European world is in a highly excited state of mind, but the excitement ought not to spread to the United States.
(cited in Hoepper et.al. 1996,p.194) Chomsky’s definition applies to the Berlin Wall as it describes how the leaders mobilized their nations to support their harsh ideological endevours. Khrushchev attempted to convince the East German population that the wall was being built to protect them from spies from West Germany. Kennedy saw the Wall as an oppurtunity to expose the unpopularity of Soviet Communism. Ideology pertains to the basis of an ecenomic or political theory(Moore.
This got the Bolsheviks more popular. Trotsky, the commissar for foreign affairs, was sent to negotiate terms with Germany to allow them to withdraw their troops. Lenin told him to get peace at all costs but Trotsky believed they asked for too much and ended the negotiations. Germany then planned an attack against Russia so Lenin created the “Treaty of Brest-Litovsk” in which he gave Germany countries that were part of the USSR. This was humiliating to Russia because not only did they never surrender; they lost countries that were contained 2/3 of Russia’s grain produce and 90% of its coal and a quarter of its population.