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Building the Berlin Wall (August 13, 1961)
Since 1945, the the French and Soviet sectors of Berlin had met at Bernauer Straße. With the building of....
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Soldiers from the U.S. Army's 2nd Armored Division in Fort Hood, Texas (1963)
To demonstrate its ability to rapidly reinforce NATO troops in Europe in the event of a Cold War emergency, the United States launched "Operation Big Lift" on October 22, 1963. During the course....
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"Commune I" during a Discussion (1967)
The politically motivated house-sharing community [Wohngemeinschaft] “Commune I” was founded in Berlin in January 1967. It was the first community of its kind and was originally located in....
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Changeover of Power in Bonn (October 21, 1969)
With votes from the SPD and the FDP, the Social Democrat Gustav Heinemann was elected Federal....
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Helmut Kohl (1973)
The Minister President of Rhineland-Palatinate, Helmut Kohl, was elected National Chairman of the CDU in 1973. In the 1976 Bundestag elections, he was the CDU's....
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Heiner Geißler and the "New Social Question" (1969)
While the social-liberal coalition emphasized the success of its socio-political reform policies, Heiner Geißler, the CDU’s social affairs minister in Rhineland-Palatinate, claimed that a “New Social....
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Mother with Children in Front of a Walter Ulbricht Poster, East Berlin (1964)
The GDR officially propagated equality between men and women, but the division of labor between the sexes continued to be informed by traditional patriarchal conceptions of gender roles. Granted,....
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Producing Irons in Sörnewitz (1964)
Following the Soviet model, worker “brigades” were instituted as the smallest structural unit in GDR factories. The GDR also followed Soviet precedent in calling for “socialist competition” among....
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Victim of the Police Action in Front of the German Opera in West Berlin’s Charlottenburg Neighborhood (June 2, 1967)
On June 2, 1967, students gathered in front of Schöneberg's city hall in West Berlin to protest the Shah of Iran’s state visit to Germany and to speak out against human rights violations in his country.....
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