East Berlin (Germany) became democratic as part of the reunification of East with West Germany in 1990. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the release of Soviet control over East Germany, the long-separated halves of the German nation, including East Berlin, merged to form the Federal Republic of Germany.
The Berlin wall separated east and west Berlin
East Berlin was the capital city of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) from 1949 to 1991.
East Berlin
soviet -> communist
Berlin was divided into East Berlin and West Berlin because the Soviets refused to let East Berlin and East Germany be a free, democratic nation and city.
The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into East and West Berlin. East Berlin, also called the Eastern Bloc, belonged to Soviet Russia and was communist. West Berlin was democratic.
The Berlin Wall was opened by East Germany (the German Democratic Republic).
It was Bonn. Let's be clear on this: Bonn was the capital of the FDR, the Federal Republic of Germany, West Germany. But the DDR, the Deutches Democratik Republik, The German Democratic Republic, East Germany, the capital was Berlin. And no, I am not for one moment suggesting East Germany was democratic, but that was its name......
Two major cities were split in the Cold War between east and west:Berlin -- West occupied by Democratic West Germany and East occupied by Communist East GermanyJerusalem -- West occupied by Israel and East occupied by Jordan
The capital of East Germany (GDR) was East Berlin.
Berlin, Germany was once split in half by the Berlin Wall. West of the wall was West Germany, who was democratic. East of the wall was East Germany, who was communist.
the Berlin wall was built on Sunday August 13, 1961 by the German Democratic Republic (GDR.) They built it so East Germans could not escape from the Soviet Union.