wat do you know about the berlin wall ?

Answer 1

German Berliner Mauer, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989. In the years between 1949 and 1961, about 2.5 million East Germans had fled from East to West Germany, including steadily rising numbers of skilled workers, professionals, and intellectuals. Their loss threatened to destroy the economic viability of the East German state. In response, East Germany built a barrier to close off East Germans' access to West Berlin (and hence West Germany). This barrier, the Berlin Wall, was first erected on the night of Aug. 12–13, 1961, as the result of a decree passed on August 12 by the East German Volkskammer (“Peoples' Chamber”). The original wall, built of barbed wire and cinder blocks, was subsequently replaced by a series of concrete walls (up to 15 feet [5 m] high) that were topped with barbed wire and guarded with watchtowers, gun emplacements, and mines. By the 1980s this system of walls, electrified fences, and fortifications extended 28 miles (45 km) throughBerlin, dividing the two parts of the city, and extended a further 75 miles (120 km) around West Berlin, separating it from the rest of East Germany.

The Berlin Wall came to symbolize the Cold War's division of East from West Germany and of eastern from western Europe. About 5,000 East Germans managed to cross theBerlin Wall (by various means) and reach West Berlin safely, while another 5,000 were captured by East German authorities in the attempt and 191 more were killed during the actual crossing of the wall.

East Germany's hard-line communist leadership was forced from power in October 1989 during the wave of democratization that swept through eastern Europe. On November 9 the East German government opened the country's borders with West Germany (including West Berlin), and openings were made in the Berlin Wall through which East Germans could travel freely to the West. The wall henceforth ceased to function as a political barrier between East and West Germany.

Answer 2

What do you want to know about it? The Berlin Wall was not a wall around the 'communist' part of an otherwise free country, but was a wall around the 'free' part of an otherwise communist country ... East Berlin.
At the end of WWll, there were four 'powers' allowed in Berlin ... France, Great Britain, U.S., and 'Russia' ... and they 'divided' Berlin evenly between them. Russia had taken all of the rest of what became 'East Germany.' In the early 1950s, people could go to all the different parts of Berlin, but there were so many 'Russians' and 'East Germans' who wanted freedom who could simply be 'free' by simply crossing a street into the 'free area' of Berlin, so the people in 'power' on the 'Communist side' built the wall to stop them from 'escaping' so easily. Then the Communists tried to 'starve' the three 'free powers' out of Berlin, and they did that by allowing no travel through East Germany by train or car ... but the free powers 'fought this' by what became known as the 'Berlin Airlift' ...
The wall stayed 'in place' until December, 1989, when it was 'taken down' ... not by the 'communists' but by ALL of the people who lived in Berlin and many from the country around it, and also many from all over the world who went to Berlin to 'see it happen.' Berlin is now the 'capitol city' of a free Germany once again.

Answer 3

The Berlin Wall was that physical structure that divided West and East Germany until it was pulled down.It's significance is that it came to symbolise the division between free democratic western Europe and the communist Soviet-occupied eastern Europe.Thus known as the Iron Curtain of the Cold War.

Answer 4

Created in the end of world war II to divide russian occupied berlin (east berlin) and american occupied Berlin (west berlin)... thus in turn dividing the capital of |Germany and becoming the symbol of the divided Germany.
During the early 1990s the wall was torn down as a symbol of the unification of Germany into one sovereign state.

pieces of the berlin wall were sold all over the world... nowdays small parts of the wall remain in Berlin as reminders of the cold war and the divided Germany

Answer 5

It isn't and nothing will change... but I do feel better knowing that the Chinese treat the ethnic Chinese LIEK 9000 TIMES MORE BETTERER THAN THEY DO ANYONE ELSE ANYWHERE