What is the berlin wall?

Question

not a s.s. question. so dont tell me to do my own homework.

Answer 1

A wall erected on 13 august 1961 and crashed down on 9 november 1989.It separated the East and West Berlin.The East Berlin was under Russians while West was under Allies(US,France,GB)

Answer 2

The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer or Antifaschistischer Schutzwall in the former German Democratic Republic), an iconic symbol of the Cold War, was initially constructed starting on August 13, 1961 and dismantled in the weeks following November 9, 1989. The Berlin Wall was the most prominent part of the GDR border system. Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and approved by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev[1] the wall was a long separation barrier between West Berlin and East Germany (the German Democratic Republic), which closed the border between East and West Berlin for a period of 28 years. It was built during the post-World War II period of divided Germany, in an effort to stop the drain of labour and economic output associated with the daily migration of huge numbers of professionals and skilled workers from East to West Berlin, and the attendant defections, which had political and economic consequences for the Communist bloc. It effectively decreased emigration (escapes - "Republikflucht" in German) from 2.5 million between 1949 and 1962 to 5,000 between 1962 and 1989.[2]

However, the creation of the Wall was a propaganda disaster for East Germany and for the communist bloc as a whole. It became a key symbol of what Western powers regarded as Communist tyranny, particularly after the high-profile shootings of would-be defectors. Political liberalization in the late 1980s, associated with the decline of the Soviet Union, led to relaxed border restrictions in East Germany, culminating in mass demonstrations and the fall of the East German government. When a government statement that crossing of the border would be permitted was broadcast on November 9, 1989, masses of East Germans approached and then crossed the wall, and were joined by crowds of West Germans in a celebratory atmosphere. The Wall was subsequently destroyed by a euphoric public over a period of several weeks, and its fall was the first step toward German reunification, which was formally concluded on October 3, 1990.

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Answer 3

a guarded concrete wall, 28 mi. (45 km), with minefields and controlled checkpoints, erected across Berlin by East Germany in 1961 and dismantled in 1989. '

Berlin wall


A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital, into four sectors. The eastern, or Russian, sector became the capital of communist East Germany. The French, British, and American sectors continued as a prosperous Western “island” city surrounded by East Germany. From then until 1961, many East Germans, sometimes two thousand a day, fled to West Berlin, often with nothing more than the clothes they had on their backs. In the summer of 1961, the wall was built, and East Germany forbade its citizens to cross the wall, at the risk of being shot immediately by border guards. In November 1989, the East German government reopened the border and issued visas to East Berliners. The Berliners celebrated by breaking off pieces of the wall at a mass demonstration, which lasted into the next day. The wall has since been demolished.

Berlin Wall


Fortified concrete and wire barrier that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989. It was built by the government of what was then East Germany to keep East Berliners from defecting to the West.

Answer 4

Not is, but was. It was a physical wall that was located in the city of Berlin and divided Germany into East and West.It was built of concrete and concrete block with barbed wire on the top (much like a prison) to keep the East German people (Communist controlled and dominated Germans) from crossing into Free Germany. In the years that it was there many thousands attempted to cross. Some were succesful, but many more were gunned down in cold blood. It finally came down when Ronald Reagan was President of the USA., and through great political manuvering finally brought it down.

Answer 5

Teh wall was constructed in Germany to Separate West Berlin to East Berlin with was behuind the Iron Curtain, that means that belong to the soviet block, comunist countries

Answer 6

It used to divide East and West Germany. This was something that the Allies integrated as part of the peace process after WWII.

Answer 7

...a literal wall that divided East (communist) Berlin and West (free) Berlin until the 80's.

Answer 8

it was an attempt by (Communist) East Germany to keep the people there from defecting to West Germany

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_wall