Berlin Wall - cold war?

Question

what exactly is the berlin wall (tell me a little about it), and what does it have to do with the cold war?

Answer 1

Thankfully, the Berlin Wall no longer exists.

Construction on the wall began on August 13, 1961, and it was dismantled in the weeks following November 9, 1989.

The Berlin Wall was the most prominent part of the inner German border and an iconic symbol of the Cold War.

It was composed at first of barbed wire. On August 13, 1961, Berlin was cut in two by a concrete wall. The Wall was over 155km (96 miles) long.

The purpose of the wall: to hinder the people of socialist East Germany from fleeing into the normal world. The wall was constantly perfected and strengthened, transformed from a normal wall into a system of impassable technical hindrances of traps, elaborate signals, concrete shooting cells, watchtowers, anti-tank tetrahedrons, “hedgehogs” and self-firing guns, which killed the fugitives without the intervention of the border guards.

Immediate effects
Many families were split. Many East Berliners were cut off from their jobs and from chances for financial improvement; West Berlin became an isolated enclave in a hostile land.

Answer 2

The Berlin Wall was literally a wall seperating East Berlin from West Berlin in Germany. East Berlin and European countries to the east of it were ruled by the Soviet Union, while West Berlin and westward was not ruled by the Soviet Union. The Berlin Wall kept people in the Soviet Union and people from the west out. It was groundbreaking when the wall fell after the strong leadership of Ronald Reagan and the so-called "iron curtain" was destroyed because this signified the end of the Soviet Union, or in other words, the end of the Cold War aswell.

Answer 3

The Berlin Wall was erected by Communist controlled East Germany, which was under the control of the Soviet Union following World War II. It seperated East Germany from West Germany. It was erected due to the fact that the brightest and best of East Germany were fleeing to West Germany due to the oppression of Communism. So Russia put it up and had it guarded to keep people in. It came down in 1989 I believe.

Answer 4

The East Germans put up a wall around their quarter of Berlin to prevent East Germans from escaping simply by taking an elevated train from East to West called the S-bahn. In August 1961, I was touring Europe with a college pal, and we were in Poland. I was down with the flu and staying at a bed & breakfast. The TV was on, and the house owner, who knew German, pointed and said, "Amerikanische Soldaten! Amerikanische Soldaten!" (American soldiers! American soldiers!) And indeed there were a lot of them scurrying around. But that was nothing, because there were American soldiers everywhere in Germany in those days. Days later, when my friend and I were driving his car through East Germany to Berlin to where I was to take a train for Copenhagen and the U.S., we had to pass through an East German checkpoint to get into Berlin. In later years, the Berlin Wall stood as a symbol of the Communist Germans' fear of their own people.

Answer 5

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Answer 6

I can't remember who was on each side, but the Berlin wall separated the Communist side of Berlin from the half that belonged to the Allies and winners of WWII.

It began with barbed wire and eventually became brick. Families were divided, and some who tried to flee to the other side died, and no one could help them for fear of being shot by the Communist army.

Some ideas to sum up the aftermath from Kennedy's speech:

"Democracy may not be perfect, but we never had to wall our people in."

"If you want to see the difference in governments, the difference in prosperity and poverty - come to Berlin."