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A Cold War Museum for Berlin
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Abstract The Cold War is ancient history to young people now. They have no idea of the underlying issues that fueled the Cold War or how it evolved and affected people’s lives. Current college and university students (aged 18-26) were between zero and six years old when the Berlin Wall came down, which is to... view more
The Cold War is ancient history to young people now. They have no idea of the underlying issues that fueled the Cold War or how it evolved and affected people’s lives. Current college and university students (aged 18-26) were between zero and six years old when the Berlin Wall came down, which is to say they did not live during the Cold War and have no direct understanding of what it was. It really is history to them, seemingly as distant as World War II or maybe even the French Revolution. The Cold War world, of mutually assured destruction, communism vs. capitalism, and Berlin on the front line divided by a wall, has been replaced by fears of terrorism, global warming, and financial crisis.... view less
Keywords
cold war; argumentation; Berlin; museum
Classification
General History
Document language
English
Publication Year
2008
Page/Pages
p. 270-274
Journal
Zeithistorische Forschungen / Studies in Contemporary History, 5 (2008) 2
ISSN
1612-6041
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed