Life behind the Iron Curtain (DLDA)

Iron Curtain

border between Eastern and Western Europe:

- heavily guarded

- watchtowers

- minefields

- barbed wire

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Life behind the Iron Curtain (1961-1989)

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Goal of the lesson

You can explain why the communist were not accepting different ideas than their ideology

You can explain how 'enemies of the state' were treated

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Eastern Bloc

Countries

- Sovjet-Union

- Hungary

- Roemania

- Bulgaria

- Tsjechoslowakia

- Poland

- Duitse Democratische Republiek

(- Joegoslavia)

(- Albania)

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Warschaupact

- 1955-1991

- military alliance

- NATO counterpart

- Eastern bloc countries (- Yugoslavia

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DDR

German Democratic Republic (1949-1990)

- totalitarian, communist state

- Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED).

- Walter Ulbricht (r.1960-1971)

- Erich Honecker (r.1971-1989)

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Stasi

Ministry for State Security (Stasi)

- binnenlandse veiligheids- en

inlichtingendienst

- Hohenschönhausen

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Jeugdorganisaties

Freie Deutsche Jugend (FDJ)

- officiële jeugdbeweging van de DDR

- Junge Pioniere voor kleine(re) kinderen

- lidmaatschap belangrijk om goede functies in de DDR te krijgen

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Dissatisfaction

Communism in DDR not working well:

- (political) repression

- planned economy does not work well

June 1953: People's revolt

- protests against high production standards

- Uprising is crushed hard by the DDR

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Berlin Wall

1949-1961: 2.6 million people fled from DDR to BRD
August 13, 1961: beginning construction of Berlin Wall
162 kilometers long; 3.6 meters high

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Berlijnse Muur

De Verenigde Staten protesteren, maar grijpen niet in.

- 1963: 'Ich bin ein Berliner' (toespraak VS-president Kennedy)

> Amerika wilde geen oorlog met

SU forceren

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