GEOG 152 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Berlin Wall, West Germany, Nikita Khrushchev
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Berlin grew slower than paris and london. Germany (then prussia, before 1870) never had colonial empires (like france or britain), so it was a capital of a small monarchy. Potsdamer platz: where berlin wall used to be, now filled with office buildings and some residences. Brandenburg gate: where the gates into west berlin were (border between east and west berlin) now a center of unification. Berlin in ruins, september 1945 (after arrival of red army) Berlin/germany liberated by soviets city destroyed by artillery shells (not aerial bombing) (potsdamer platz) Nationalist socialist party (nazi party): becomes a large, popular party in. Hitler removes all other parties, and gains total power imperialist regime (to catch up to british/french empires) The occupation and division of germany (including territories ceded to soviet union and poland) The occupation and division of berlin (soviet sector in east, american/british/french sector in west) 1945-1991. 1961: wall is constructed, sealing off east from west germany.
