building of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was built because since WWII had ended Berlin had been a divided city. The border between eastern and western Europe was closed everywhere but Berlin. Berlin became an escape route for refugees to flee their country. Thousands of refugees were flocking into West Berlin each day‚ at that rate West Berlin would lose much of its workforce. Khrushchev warned Kennedy that he would not let it continue‚ Kennedy responded that he would defend West Berlin at the risk
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The Berlin Wall separated the people of East Berlin from the people in West Berlin. It separated families‚ kept people from their jobs‚ and caused people to die. It was erected in an effort to save East Berlin’s economy‚ but in the end it did so much more. The fleeing of residents of East Berlin to West Berlin affected the Soviet Union and East Berlin in two ways. The first of which was economic. By 1958‚ 15% of the population of East Berlin had fled to West Berlin. East Berlin’s economy provided
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dare laugh about when you’re right in the middle of it‚” director of Goodbye‚ Lenin!‚ Wolfgang Becker‚ stated in an interview discussing the movie. Goodbye‚ Lenin! focuses on the drastic shift in the lives of East Germans following the fall of the Berlin Wall. With the rise of communist nation‚ Russia‚ after World War II‚ came the conflict between communist and capitalist nations. Russia sought to spread socialism by branching out and bringing countries such as Bulgaria and Czechoslovakia under its
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What year was the Berlin Wall built and who built it? The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 by the Soviet Army. What did the Berlin Wall create? The Berlin Wallhe East from its capitalistic enemy‚ the West. It was also built to control the unstoppable flood of emigration from East to West Berlin. What is Berlin’s poorest district? Berlin’s poorest district is Kreuzberg. What does the Kurfurstendamn district of Berlin symbolize? Kurfurstendamn is a showcase of western consumer goods and the
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The Berlin Crisis of East Germany was a defining period of the Cold War‚ during which both superpowers fought for control over the most highly contested nation in Europe. It can be seen that the major factor in this crisis was the division of Germany into two sectors; East and West Germany and the subsequent attempts by the two superpowers to control both. Following the rapid spread of the Soviet grip over Europe‚ it was in the interests of the USSR to gain control of Germany in its entirety; that
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The Westward Migration of Germany On May 8‚ 1945‚ the Red Army finally captured Berlin‚ marking the end of World War II. After the war‚ the Allied Powers split Germany into four sections: American‚ British‚ and French powers controlled the west while the Soviet Union controlled the east. As the relationship between the Soviet Union and Western allied powers became increasingly hostile‚ the cooperative atmosphere in Germany turned competitive and aggressive. Also‚ living conditions in West Germany
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countries that imposed such harsh terms on Germany in 1917. Although the Treaty of Versailles was a pivotal stage in shaping German history there are other corresponding factors such as the erection of the Berlin wall in 1961‚ consequently perpetually separating East and West Berlin for 28 years. After the wall came down in 1989‚ Germany became reunified in 1990‚ arguably the most significant turning point in German history as it enabled Germany to prosper as a whole nation‚ since then Germany has gone on
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John F. Kennedy "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner) is a famous statement that President Kennedy said in June 26‚ 1963 in the West of Berlin. He was strengthen the support of the United States for West Germany‚ 22 months after the Soviet-supported East Germany‚ to build up the Berlin Wall as a barrier to prevent movement between East and West. The speech is considered one of Kennedy ’s best‚ and a notable moment of the Cold War. That speech was very good for the West Berliners who lived
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West Berlin. Kennedy gave this speech while the world was in the midst of the war between communism and democracy‚ to a people who had been torn and divided because of it. The Berlin Wall had been erected only two years prior‚ and thousands of relatives and loved ones were separated. Kennedy commends the Berliners for their bravery and steadfastness to freedom‚ denounces the communists for separating the German people‚ and calls the audience to keep fighting for equality not only in Berlin or Germany
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Down this Wall” Ra’Shell Ford Due 7/24/2011 Rhetorical Analysis of Ronald Reagan’s “Tear Down this Wall” On August 15‚ 1961‚ Communists began building a wall to keep Germans from escaping Communist-controlled East Berlin to West Democratic Berlin. There were guards‚ electric barbed wired fences‚ and of course the twelve foot concrete wall that prevented Germans from escaping. After the wall was built many Germans still tried to flee the west but not all were successful. The East Berlin Germans
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