the berlin wall?

Question

8 facts on the berlin wall

Answer 1

u may wanna go to a Berlin web site and learn about it. I saw it in 2005 and it is great

Answer 2

1. Built on August 1961.
2. Was supposed to stop the "Brain Drain" from east to west.
3. Made West Berlin an island in the Soviet territory of Germany.
4. Over a thousand people died while trying to cross the border.
5. The term "The Iron Curtain" was coined by Churchill.
6. Reagan demanded that the wall should be torn down in 1987.
7. Fell on Nov. 9, 1989.
8. Germany officially united on Oct. 3, 1990.

Answer 3

It was put up to partion that part of Berlin which was under the control of communist Russia.

It was not strictly speaking a wall. It was an amalgamation of gutted houses, walls already built, a no man's land filled with barbed wire between the Russian and the Allied side.

The most famous place for crossing from East Berlin to West Berlin through the "wall" was Checkpoint Charlie", made famous by John Le Carre, and no longer in existence.

Where people tried to cross to the West side and failed crosses were put up along the wall.

A lot of graffiti was written on the wall, and the phrase that most struck me, and I still remember after 43 years was "IN TYRANNOS" scrawled in large letters on the wall.

The wall kept families apart--those stuck on the East side when it went up and those stuck on the West side went many years without being able to see each other.

On both sides of the wall armed soldiers, young men, stood facing each other with loaded guns day after day. How they stood that kind of duty, and what they thought I have often wondered about.

I crossed the wall at Checkpoint Charlie in 1963, during the days you could only fly in and out of West Berlin at certain times on a certain flight corridor. The West side was so upbeat, and courageous, the East side so dismal, and depressed.
Those of us who were allowed to tour East Berlin were carefully chaperoned away from any real people who lived there. We were taken to see what was beautiful, or memorialized Russia,
and what struck me was the absence of ordinary people. The corners were manned by soldiers. But the people were nowhere to be seen.

The wall became the symbol of Western freedom and Communist tyranny to all who saw it. It was an incredibly moving experience to have been allowed to be there and see it through that historical time period. And joyous to know how many families were reunited when it came down.

Answer 4

The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of August 13, 1961.
It was a weekend and most Berliners slept while the East German government begun to close the border. In the early morning of that Sunday most of the first work was done: the border to West Berlin was closed. The East German troups had begun to tear up streets and to install barbed wire entanglement and fences through Berlin.

The first concrete elements and large square blocks were used first on August 15, 1961. Within the next months the first generation of the Berlin Wall was build up: a wall consisting of concrete elements and square blocks.

A second Wall was build in June 1962 in order to prevent from escaping to the West.
The first Wall was improved during the next years and it's difficult to distinguish between the first and the second generation of the Wall.

These two first generations were removed by the third generation beginning about 1965. The third generation of Wall consisted of concrete slabs between steel girder and concrete posts with a concrete sewage pipe on top of the Wall.

From the year 1975 the third generation of Wall was replaced by the fourth generation. New concrete segements were used which were easy to build up and were more resistant to breakthroughs and to environmental polutions.

Answer 5

Berlin Wall


1961—89, a barrier first erected in Aug., 1961, by the East German government along the border between East and West Berlin, and later extended along the entire border between East Germany and West Germany. It was built to halt large numbers of defections and to prevent E. Berliners commuting to the West. Erected at a time of growing tension between East and West, the barbed wire was eventually replaced by concrete topped with wire. In 1989, after hundreds of thousands of East Germans had fled westward via Hungary and Czechoslovakia, on Nov. 9, the beleaguered East German regime lifted travel restrictions, and days later dismantling of the wall began. Built to keep people in, the wall was dismantled in a failed gamble by the Communists to keep power. By Jan., 1990, the regime was selling large slabs of the wall for hard currency, and had set December for its total demolition. In Oct., 1990, however, East Germany was formally reabsorbed into the Federal Republic of Germany and only short sections of the wall remained standing, as memorials

Answer 6

Fact Number One: Do your own homework.

Answer 7

Are you kidding???