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Russian Constructivism
The main idea of Russian Constructivism was a desire to express the experience of modern life. In addition, developing a new form of art more appropriate to the democratic and modernizing goals of the Russian Revolution was crucial. It ended during the 1930s. -
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Neue Sachlichkeit
Neue Sachlichkeit, or New Objectivity in English, was a group of German artists who made works in a realistic style. -
Treaty of Versailles
The Versailles Treaty forced Germany to give up territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia and Poland, return Alsace and Lorraine to France and cede all of its overseas colonies in China, Pacific and Africa to the Allied nations. Additionally, Germany had to pay a lot of reparations. When Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany in 1934, his government began to violate many of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. -
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Bauhaus
Art school in Germany. -
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New Economic Policy in Soviet Union
The NEP replaced war communism as the Soviet regime's official economic policy. It ended grain requisitioning, replacing it with a fixed tax to be paid in kind, and allowed private ownership of small businesses, the return of markets and the sale of surplus goods. It returned the economy to pre-1914 levels and gave the Communist Party the breathing space it needed to survive: Production figures show the NEP was success. By Lenin's death in 1924 marked recovery on all major industry. -
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Stalin leader of Soviet Union
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Lenin died
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Establishment of The Dawes Plan
The Dawes plan was an agreement between the Allies and Germany. The idea behind the plan was to make it easier for Germany to pay reparations and had two key parts. As a result, reparations payments resumed, and the French occupation of the Ruhr ended. -
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Stalin's five-year plans
Stalin's plans to modernize industry in the Soviet Union were calculated in Five Year Plans. They were introduced to rapidly cover the distance Russia was behind other industrial competitors like Germany and USA, and had a mixture of success and consequences. Stalin believed that the five-year plans would help build the industry to protect the Soviet Union from the capitalist West. -
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The Great Depression
The Great Depression started with a stock market crash in the USA and resulted in a world wide economic depression. -
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Socialist Realism
Art movement in the Soviet Union. It's a style of idealized realistic art developed in the Soviet Union. It was the official art style between 1932 and 1988. -
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Hitler in power
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Great Purge in Soviet Union
Stalin used the murder of Sergey Kirov as a pretext to launch the Great Purge, in which about a million people died (read; executed). Years later, historians came to believe that there was enough evidence to state that Stalin had arranged the murder of Kirov. -
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WWII
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Germany invades Russia
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Russia occupies Eastern European countries
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Potsdam Conference
A meeting between Stalin, Churchill, and Truman to discuss post-World War 2. They compromised; each side would take reparations from its own occupation zone. They divided Germany, created Council of Foreign Ministers, and marked the end of wartime alliance. -
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Cold war
The Cold War was an ongoing political rivalry and military tension between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies. It developed shortly after the Second World War. There was a threat of nuclear war, competition over newly independent nations and their loyalty, and competition about the military and economic support of countries around the world. -
London six-power conference
This conference resulted in the following conditions; Germany should not have weapons of mass destruction, other similar weapons, and should not be able to invade the Soviet occupation zone. -
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Berlin Blockade
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GDR formed
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FRG joins NATO
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Stalin died
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Khrushtev leader of Soviet Union
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Hallstein doctrine
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Berlin Wall
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Ostpolitik
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Willy Brandt leader of Germany
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Warsaw Treaty
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Moscow Treaty
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Kraftwerk started being active
Kraftwerk is a German band from Düsseldorf, established by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider-Esleben. They started in 1970, and are still active today. Their music can be described by art, electronics, and beats. Their template is copied by musicians everywhere nowadays, but when they started out it was certainly revolutionary. -
The German Autumn
The so-called German Autumn in 1977 (Deutscher Herbst) was the height of left-wing terrorism in Germany. German terrorists abducted the president of the employers association Hanns Martin Schleyer and Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Lufthansa plane Landshut. -
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Helmut Kohl leader of Germany
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Gorbachev leader of Soviet Union
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Soviet Union collapses
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Boris Yeltsin leader of Russia
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Current Russian constitution established
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Vladimir Putin leader of Russia
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Start of Angela Merkel's leadership Germany
Lasted until 2021