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”