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Postwar europe
1. The Roots of the Cold War
Europe After World War II
I. An Uneasy Alliance Between the US and USSR
II. Conflicts in Europe After WWII
III. The Cold War Escalates
IV. The Arms Race Begins
2. I. An Uneasy Alliance Between the
USA and USSR
Nazi Invasion of USSR
Uneasy Alliance
- “The enemy of the
enemy is your friend.”
3. II. Conflicts in Europe After WWII
Two “superpowers” emerge
Europe is divided
– “Iron Curtain”
“From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the
Adriatic an "iron curtain" has descended
across the Continent. Behind that line lie all
the capitals of the ancient states of Central
and Eastern Europe. Warsaw, Berlin,
Prague, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade,
Bucharest and Sofia; all these famous cities
and the populations around them lie in what
I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are
subject, in one form or another, not only to
Soviet influence but to a very high and in
some cases increasing measure of control
from Moscow.”
-British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
Construction 1961 On 15 August 1961 he found himself, aged 19, guarding the Berlin Wall , then in its third day of construction, at the corner of Ruppiner Straße and Bernauer Straße . At that stage of construction, the Berlin Wall was only a low barbed wire fence. As the people on the Western side shouted Komm rüber! ("come over"), Schumann jumped the barbed wire and was driven away at high speeds by a waiting West Berlin police car. Photographer Peter Leibing captured a photograph of his escape on film and it became a well-known image of the Cold War . Schumann was later permitted to travel from West Berlin to the main territory of West Germany , where he settled in Bavaria . He met his wife Kunigunde in the town of Günzburg . [1] After the fall of the Berlin Wall he said, "Only since 9 November 1989 [the date of the fall] have I felt truly free". Even so, he continued to feel more at home in Bavaria than in his birthplace, citing old frictions with his former colleagues, and he even hesitated about visiting his parents and brothers and sisters in Saxony . On 20 June 1998, suffering from depression, he committed suicide, hanging himself in his orchard near the town of Kipfenberg in Oberbayern . [2]
