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Subject: Help Needed Thu Feb 05, 2009 1:13 pm

1.What are Pan Germans?
2.What is the Iron Curtain?

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Pan-Germanism: German nationalist doctrine aiming at the union of all German-speaking people under German rule. Pan-Germanists considered that not only the German groups in neighboring countries, such as Austria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Switzerland, and Alsace, but even distant German-speaking groups such as Volga Germans, Baltic Germans, Transylvanian Germans, and German-Americans were linked by a blood tie to their fatherland. The doctrine originated in the late 19th cent. as an instrument of German imperialistic expansion. The Pan-Germans became particularly vocal after Germany's defeat in World War I had deprived it of some border territories and its colonies. National Socialism appropriated Pan-Germanism; by the annexation of Austria and of German-speaking parts of Czechoslovakia in 1938 and by German conquests in Europe during World War II, Adolf Hitler nearly succeeded for a time in making the Pan-German program a reality.

Iron curtain:

it is the Berlin wall which was built between East and West Germany by USSR

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thanks Dear for telling me that Iron curtain was Berlin wall
Like a Star @ heaven

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but..is pan germanism in the syllabus?? confused

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That's what even I was thinkin the same thing and searchin' for it in the Book Razz

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i've never heard these words confused

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i checked i wiki!!! Very Happy

not there in the book, but wen i read the explaination, it was related to the syllabus, so, i thought of noting it down....

Berlin Wall was a guess...i remember once my maam had told it...i hope i am correct...???????

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yups..berlin wall is correct..u rarely seem to get any wrong Very Happy

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thank you....and i wish the same happens in board too!! cheers