what did the fall of the berlin wall contribute to the US? did it award the US with the fall of communism??!!

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Answer 1

What may surprise you is none of the occupying powers(US,UK,and France) had anything to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall.It was brought about by Pope John Paul11He visited his homeland Poland and endorsed the Solidarity Movement.The poles broke thier shackles.Then Chekoslovakia.East Germany could'nt stop the tide of human emotion.They stormed the wall and started to break it down,with thier bare hands.This was the beginning of the collapse of the USSR.
Incidentally at the Yalta Conferance Churchill and Roosevelt expressed the opinion that the west should keep faith with the catholic church.To which Stalin enquired,Why,how many divisions has the pope.
Well a pope destroyed his old regime

Answer 2

The unification of Berlin was largely symbolic in the fall of the Soviet State, but it certainly meant a lot to the families seperated by the wall. The USSR fell when Gorbiechev implemented his democratic reforms, effectively ending the Communist parties hegemony, and other parties and viewpoints flurished. It was more a case of an authoritarian power willfully giving up control than it was a case of out side powers (the US) defeating Communism. And no, The Berlin wall fell in 1989, and the USSR didn't dissolve until 1991.

Answer 3

I don't think that the fall of the wall was either the begining or the end of the fall of the eastern block. It has become mainly a symbolic event for a proccess that started much earlier from the inside of the soviet union and finally escalated and got out of hand. It was a powerfull image that could be shown on tv and summarize all that happens. But it kind of makes it all more heroic and obscures a more complicated situation.

Answer 4

It was the beginning of the end of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe and therefore the end of the Cold War. America's military industries now had to look for new enemies to justify their huge profits from the American taxpayer.

Answer 5

It didn't award the US with anything, but it was the beginning of the end of Soviet hegemony over Eastern Europe, including their European republics (Estonia, Lithuania, etc). After this happened in 1989, there was no doubt in most people's minds that the Soviet Union was dying a slow death.