Over the course of the Berlin Airlift, cargo planes touched down in the besieged city an average of once every three minutes, 24 hours a day. A phenomenal feat of military coordination and humanitarian assistance, the Berlin Airlift demonstrated American resolve not to give in to Communist expansion. In May 1949, a frustrated Stalin lifted his embargo upon the city. Soon after, the western zones of the country officially united into a new country, the Federal Republic of Germany (a.k.a. West Germany). In October 1949, the Soviets followed by announcing the organization of the German Democratic Republic (a.k.a. East Germany) to take over the former Soviet zone of occupation. Germany would remain divided for the next forty…
As a result, many Eastern Germans migrated to the West because they didn’t like the way their government works. Which led to the forming of the Berlin Wall by the East German authorities. Shown in document 3b, the impact of the wall was significant because it…
Berlin Wall: Built by communist government to separate impoverished, Soviet - controlled East Berlin from the…
On the fateful day in November the “symbol” of communism, the Berlin Wall, was tore down by both the West in East Germans. This act signified the culminating point of the Revolutionary changes sweeping Europe, and the eventual fall of the Soviet Union and most Communism as people. Throughout the Soviet era, the side of West Germany was under harsh Communist rule. This breaking down of the wall had such a greater meaning, it was the birth of freedom to all those currently oppressed. Such an action had great repercussions on the world, back then and yet still today.…
Berlin was an immediate victim to the Cold War. Berlin was shared amongst 4 powers, the French, British, United States and the Soviet Union.(doc 3a) Since Berlin was shared with the Soviet Union, part of Berlin was communist as the other half wasn't. The Soviet Union built a wall to keep capitalist ideas out of their sector of Berlin.(doc 3b) Not only did the Soviet Union build this wall but they also blockaded the city hoping to force out the western sector. This attempt failed as the United States responded with the Berlin airlift which brought food and supplies to Berlin each day. Germany wasn't…
In 1989 when the berlin wall came down it effect all of Germany in a strong way people from each side rushed to meet people on the other as shown in source 31 it shows how significant the fall of the berlin wall was to hundreds and thousands of people there when the wall started to be broke down. Many people got very emotional about this moment over the wall that split them apart for 30years. This is also shown in source 30.The Main reason for the collapse of the East German government was the hatred towards communism by the East German people.…
After World War II, Germany was divided into four zones between France, Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union. Although Germany’s capital city of Berlin was located entirely within the Soviet controlled section of Germany, it was also divided between the four nations. France, Great Britain, and the United states controlled the western half of the city, later uniting their individual zones in order to form a West German State, while the Soviet Union controlled the eastern half. Berlin became politically advantageous and extremely important to the Soviet Union and East…
After West Germany started to leave, East Germany angered the SU and they built a wall, The Berlin Wall. It was made so the people from outside Berlin couldn’t escape to East Germany. There were guards on every corner, if someone tried to get out a guard shot them. They were isolated.... that's where the Berlin Airlift came in.…
The Berlin Wall was created to separate the city Berlin into east and west where no one is allowed to cross the border. It was a barbed wired and concrete wall with very high levels of security which made it impossible to get to the other side. Before the wall was built, refugees were escaping from east Berlin to the West, especially skilled workers who found a better living under a democracy. After a large number of refugees escaping to the west, Nikita Khrushchev, leader of the Soviet Union at the time, makes an order for the Berlin wall to be built with heavy security. Many did not enjoy their life on the Eastern part even when countries tried to revolt against the Soviet Union such as Imre Nagy, prime minister of Hungary and Alexander Dubcek leader of Czechoslovakia. By these countries trying to leave the Soviet Union, it violated the Warsaw Pact which means a “A war on one is a war on all” and anyone who tried to leave the Warsaw Pact would either get executed or pulled out of power by the Soviet Union. Eventually by 1989, the Berlin Wall falls and Germany is reunited a year later.…
After Reagan’s famous “Tear Down this Wall”, speech, the Berlin Wall had officially been torn down by 1989, officially reuniting East and West Germany after 45 years of communist intervention. This was a very…
Fifteen to sixteen years after World War Two, which was about 1960-1961 the Berlin Wall was built to separate East and West Berlin Germany. West Berlin was controlled by the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. East Berlin was controlled by the Soviet Union.…
Berlin from 1961 to 1989 was either a place of hardships and sacrifice, or peace and prosperity depending on which side of the Berlin Wall the Germans lived on. The two different governments that resided over Berlin could not have been more different, each enforcing their own laws, beliefs and propaganda on the people residing within their borders. West Germany, also known as the Federal Republic of Germany, was established on the twenty-third of May 1949, when the three allied forces occupying Germany amalgamated to form one separate country. As West Germany was under western influence, the western powers helped them to set up a democratic parliamentary government, and aided in any post-war rehabilitation. The same amalgamation occurred within…
“That American and Soviet soldiers had first met and grasped hands on April 25, 1945; it was the future of Germany that would test and then break the alliance” (Paxton 416). It did not help that Berlin was divided up and occupied by four different countries three of which supported capitalism and freedom and one that wanted communism. From there the Soviet Union put up the Berlin Wall stopping East Germans from leaving their occupied zone and going into West Berlin. Causing more controversy between the sides. The divided Germany struggled and never really worked. West Germany flourished, but East Germany struggled and caused a major rift with the Soviets. Dividing up Germany only intensified the issue that was already developing and prolonged the…
The U.S., England, and France wanted to reunify Germany, whereas the Soviets wanted to keep their claim to Eastern Germany, and saw the West’s efforts as an attack on their claim. Since the capitol was also split, it created an isolated Western-controlled area surrounded by the Soviets. Consequently, the Soviets and U.S. argued over whether West Berlin should remain a Western-owned land, as the Soviets were angered by their citizens escaping into West Berlin. Since the U.S. refused to give up their territory, the Soviets built the Berlin Wall, a wall surrounding West Berlin, where they would shoot anyone trying to cross. The Berlin Wall became a physical representation of the iron curtain, which was the metaphorical separation between the Soviet controlled East of Europe and the U.S. and allied controlled West.…
Germany's separation by a wall put up by the Soviet Union This wall was named the Berlin…