Europe Divided History 104 / April 22, 2013. The American military & the question of fraternization.
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Transcript of Europe Divided History 104 / April 22, 2013. The American military & the question of fraternization.
Europe DividedHistory 104 / April 22, 2013
The American military & the question of fraternization
Eastern Europe: Red Army Choirsand pro-Soviet “friendship societies”
Hamburg, 1957:boxing legend Max Schmeling
as a Coca-Cola distributor
Marlene Dietrich(an emigré from
Germany)advertises for Lucky Strike
“Learning from the Soviet Union means learning victory!”
Clement AttleeBritish Prime Minister,
1945-1951
France’s final defeat in Vietnam:Dien Bien Phu, March-May 1954
France’s war in Algeria, 1954-1962
De Gaulle “returns” to lead France, 1958
Konrad AdenauerWest German Chancellor,
1949-1963
“No Experiments!”
Ludwig ErhardWest German Minister of Economics, 1949-1963
“Prosperity for Everyone”
The Treaty of Rome (March 1957)
Jean-Paul Sartre, apostle of existentialism
Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
One-Dimensional Man (1964)
The “May Events” in Paris, 1968
“Heavy industry –the basis of our
independence and prosperity”
- poster promotingEast Germany’sFive Year Plan
“De-Stalinization” in 1956:Khrushchev denounces Stalin’s earlier “cult
of personality”
Stalin “beheaded” in Budapest(October 1956)
Soviet tanksenter the Hungarian
capital
Alexander Dubcek (1921-1992) “socialism with a human face”
Aug. 20, 1968:other Warsaw Pact states intervene to
crush the“Prague Spring”