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Authors: Michael Meyer
rise of opposition,
152
â153,
158
Dubcek, Alexander,
45
,
177
,
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â187,
226
Duberstein, Kenneth,
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Dukakis, Michael,
39
â40
East Berlin
fall of Berlin Wall,
5
â9,
65
â76,
88
â94,
165
â173,
203
â204
Jubilee of 1989 and,
115
,
147
â152
May Day (1989),
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â66,
69
â70,
228
refugees from GDR and,
119
â120,
160
â161
rise of opposition,
158
See also
Berlin; German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Eastern Europe
collapse of communism throughout,
41
â42,
48
,
54
,
62
,
173
â174,
204
Soviet withdrawal from,
12
,
38
â39,
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See also names of specific countries
East Germany.
See
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
East Side Gallery (Berlin),
204
Eberlein, Werner,
148
Edge of the Forest, The
(Bailey),
223
Elizabeth, Queen,
106
El Salvador civil war, impact of,
23
Engels, Friedrich,
34
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development,
207
European Community (EC),
229
European Union, Cold War and,
21
“Evil Empire,” collapse of,
2
,
14
,
215
â216
Fall of the Berlin Wall, The
(Buckley),
223
Fall of the Wall, The
(BBC-Spiegel TV documentary),
228
,
231
,
232
,
234
,
235
Farocki, Harun,
236
Faust's Metropolis
(Richie),
25
Federalist Papers,
29
Federal Republic of Germany.
See
West Germany
Fidesz (League of Young Democrats),
32
Filep, Maria,
97
â98
Fischer, Benjamin,
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Fischer, Joschka,
231
Fischer, Oskar,
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,
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â114,
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Foreign Affairs,
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â237
Fourteen Points,
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Freedom Train,
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â124,
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â134,
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â143,
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â153,
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Free German Youth,
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Freie Deutsche Jugend (Free German Youth),
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,
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Fried, Daniel,
231
frontier guards,
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â104,
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â160
Fulda Gap,
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,
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â77,
210
,
227
â228
Funder, Anna,
224
Gabalova, Zdenka,
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â176,
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,
236
Gallagher, Tom,
236
GDR.
See
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
Geiffert, Hans,
153
Geldbach, Anita,
19
Generation Gap,
22
Genscher, Hans-Dietrich,
229
,
231
â232,
236
attitudes toward German reunification,
23
nuclear deterrence and,
72
,
74
â76
refugees from GDR and,
104
â105,
115
,
123
â124
George Bush Library and Museum (College Station, Texas),
211
â212
Georgia
pro-democracy movements in,
99
See also
Soviet Union, former
Gerasimov, Gennady,
150
Geremek, Bronislaw,
47
,
53
,
59
â60,
225
,
233
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
attitudes toward German reunification,
23
â28
Berlin Wall.
See
Berlin Wall
closes borders,
142
denouement,
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â204
economic problems of,
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,
117
,
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,
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â135,
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,
143
,
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,
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â161,
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â165
fall of Berlin Wall and,
5
â10,
65
â76,
88
â94
impact of Berlin Wall in,
16
â19,
24
â26
Jubilee of 1989 and,
66
,
115
,
135
,
147
â152
Pan-European Picnic (1989) and,
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â104,
106
,
116
,
124
,
144
,
231
â232
refugees from,
8
â9,
16
â17,
24
,
27
,
66
,
97
â105,
113
â126,
133
â135,
142
â143,
159
â161
reopening of border with Czechoslovakia,
158
â159
rise of opposition,
152
â161
September
11
, 1989 border opening,
113
â126
travel laws,
8
â9,
98
,
101
â102,
113
,
118
,
121
,
157
,
158
â160,
163
â170
Germany.
See
German Democratic Republic (GDR); West Germany
Germany Unified and Europe Transformed
(Zelikow and Rice),
227
,
229
,
231
Geyer, Georgie Ann,
222
Givens, Robin,
39
glasnost (openness),
4
,
12
,
29
â30,
37
,
157
Gorbachev, Mikhail
background of,
11
Czech Velvet Revolution (1989) and,
183
fall of Berlin Wall and,
70
â75,
91
â93,
204
GDR Jubilee of 1989 and,
135
,
147
â152
glasnost (openness),
4
,
12
,
29
â30,
37
,
157
Hungary and,
55
â58,
60
â61,
70
â71,
73
,
141
,
226
â228
Nobel Peace Prize,
204
nuclear deterrence/disarmament and,
12
â13,
55
â58,
60
â63,
75
,
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,
229
perestroika (reform) and,
4
,
12
â13,
29
â30,
37
,
71
,
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,
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â223,
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Pozsgay compared with,
33
â34
reaches out to other countries,
12
â13,
27
â28,
75
,
233
â234
Reagan's Berlin Wall speech (1987),
2
â5,
9
â14,
215
refugees from GDR and,
113
â114
rise of opposition in GDR,
153
â155,
159
socialism and,
56
U.S.-Soviet relations and,
60
â63,
75
,
226
â228
at Warsaw Pact summit (Bucharest; 1989),
91
â95
Gorbachev, Raisa,
12
Gorbimania,
4
Göttingen,
19
Grand Hotel Europa (Prague),
180
Great Dictator,
109
Great Escape,
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â126,
144
,
159
â161,
232
Greene, Graham,
21
Gromyko, Andrey,
12
Grosz, Karoly
fall of communism in Hungary and,
66
â67,
73
,
224
,
230
â231
as head of Hungarian socialist party,
31
,
33
,
38
,
41
,
55
â57,
226
â228
Pan-European Picnic (1989) and,
101
reburial of Imre Nagy and,
85
â88
Guatemalan conflict, impact of,
23
Guse, Stefan,
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â198
Habsburg, Otto von,
97
â104,
116
Hajdu, Tabor,
224
Halberstam, David,
237
Haunted Land, The
(Rosenberg),
225
Havel, Vaclav,
135
â143,
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,
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as dissident of dissidents,
36
,
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â138,
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â178
Nobel Peace Prize and,
135
as president of Czechoslovakia,
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â206
Velvet Revolution (1989) and,
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,
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,
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â182,
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â190
Hayward, Steven,
221
â222
Hegyeshalom border crossing,
70
Helgerson, John,
62
Hendrickson, David C.,
237
Higgs, Robert,
224
High Noon
(film),
79
Hitler, Adolf,
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â16,
28
,
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,
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,
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â211
Honecker, Erich (Papi)
background of,
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collapse of GDR and,
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â135,
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â138,
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â165,
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,
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â231,
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,
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construction of Berlin Wall,
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â17,
66
,
68
fall of Berlin Wall,
65
â66,
69
â70,
88
â94,
172
Freedom Train “solution,”
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â124,
133
â134,
142
â143,
152
â153,
154
Jubilee of 1989,
66
,
115
,
135
,
147
â152
Pan-European Picnic (1989) and,
101
,
104
,
105
police state under,
24
â28
refugees from GDR and,
110
,
113
â115,
117
,
120
â124
rise of opposition,
152
â161
at Warsaw Pact summit (Bucharest; 1989),
92
â94
Hormats, Robert,
238
Horn, Gyula,
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,
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,
104
â105,
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,
116
Horton, Willie,
40
Horvath, Istvan,
38
,
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â73,
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,
101
,
114
Hotel Victoria (Warsaw),
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â130
How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life
(Robinson),
10
,
222
Hrusinsky, Rudolf,
185
human rights,
113
,
129
,
136
,
197
,
205
,
214
Hungarian Democratic Forum,
31
â32
Hungarian Socialist Workers Party,
31
,
233
,
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Hungary
democracy in,
29
â32,
41
,
55
â58,
110
,
230
â231
denouement,
206
â207
fall of Berlin Wall and,
8
,
66
â74,
90
,
91
,
224
fall of communism in,
28
,
29
â39,
41
â42,
46
,
61
,
66
â74,
125
,
128
,
137
,
139
â140,
143
â145,
206
â207,
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â229,
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,
236
Gorbachev and,
55
â58,
60
â61,
70
â71,
73
,
141
,
226
â228
Pan-European Picnic (1989) and,
97
â104,
231
â232
reburial of Imre Nagy,
84
â88