I could imagine . . . that for a few weeks people will wait to see if economic reforms come and if there is no light at the end
of the tunnel they will run away from [East Germany] in great numbers. This would be a catastrophe for economic development; good people are leaving. The figures this year -- 230,000 have come. Their average age has been between 25 and 30. This is a catastrophe for [East Germany]. They are doctors, lawyers, specialists who cannot be replaced. They can earn more here. —Helmut Kohl, Chancellor of West Germany, November 10, 1989 Background information: This passage is an excerpt from a telephone conversation between US President George H.W. Bush, and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. The chancellor is giving his opinion of the effects of the fall of the Berlin Wall. What point is Chancellor Kohl making in this conversation? West Germany is facing economic problems now that the wall is gone.
East Germany is losing its most highly trained workers, and they are not easily replaceable.
He is hopeful that he can encourage more East Germans to move to West Germany.
He thinks that West Germany’s problems are much worse than those of East Germany.
truman doctrine is the principle that the US should give support to countries or people's threatened by Soviet forces or Communist insurrection. The invasion of South Korea made Truman genuinely fearful that the Soviet union and China intended to expand the sphere of communism throughout Asia.
American imperialism is partly based on American exceptionalism, the idea that the United States is different from other countries because of its specific world mission to spread liberty and democracy.
The Puritans chose to make a province in America where they could hone their religion. This was not a province where the opportunity of religion existed. It was one where Puritanism would turn into the State religion. All pioneers would be required to take after its religious standards. Guidelines were fairly strict.
President Eisenhower's threat to use atomic weapons probably deterred all of the following except "<span>a. the Vietnamese ousting their" government, since this threat was only meant to be made in the context of the Cold War. </span>
