HIS344Y1 Lecture 10: Lecture 10.doc
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Today we return to political developments, picking up from the german question and berlin issue. The issue of berlin is the central/symbolic piece of cold war, bringing together all the issues separating the. First of all, berlin was divided (symbolizing the divisions of germany into two halves). Secondly, it symbolizes the division of europe and the rest of the world into capitalist and communist camps. Both sides tried to take as much advantage of their moments of superiority in order to score a point and bring a solution to the berlin crisis, germany and europe. When khrushchev came to power, he denounced stalin. In 1958, he challenges the west not in military terms but rather relying on diplomacy. [khrushchev solution] he makes berlin a free/neutral city that is neither western nor eastern. In many ways, this is a decent proposal.
