The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall had first been put up as a sign of communist defiance against the west and was (as Winston Churchill said) like an iron curtain across the whole of Europe. The wall was designed to keep the west out and the pro-capitalists in.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall fell on November 9th 1989 and signified the unification of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the end of communism in Germany as a whole.
What affect did it have on Communism?
The fall of the Berlin Wall was showed the Communism was collapsing and that the people of eastern Europe were free from the communist dictatorships that had repressed them for nearly half a century. The Berlin Wall's collapse most likely sped up the collapse of communism in it's builder; the USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - now Russia]. It also led to the Eastern Block or Communist Block dissolving and becoming capitalist. Without this one significant event the whole process may have taken decades longer.
1) It indirectly caused the breakup of Czechoslovakia - which was the product of a shotgun marriage - into Slovakia and the Czech Republic.
2) It led to the reunification of Germany.
3) It led to the dissolution of Yugoslavia (another shotgun marriage) into its constituent states.
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The fall of the Berlin Wall
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The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall had first been put up as a sign of communist defiance against the west and was (as Winston Churchill said) like an iron curtain across the whole of Europe. The wall was designed to keep the west out and the pro-capitalists in.The Fall of the Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall fell on November 9th 1989 and signified the unification of the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany) and the end of communism in Germany as a whole.What affect did it have on Communism?The fall of the Berlin Wall was showed the Communism was collapsing and that the people of eastern Europe were free from the communist dictatorships that had repressed them for nearly half a century. The Berlin Wall's collapse most likely sped up the collapse of communism in it's builder; the USSR [Union of Soviet Socialist Republics - now Russia]. It also led to the Eastern Block or Communist Block dissolving and becoming capitalist. Without this one significant event the whole process may have taken decades longer.
The fall of the Berlin Wall represented th fall of communism in Germany. Before the wall came down, East Berliners were not allowed to go to the west side of the city because they were communists. (literally) The fall of the wall signified the fall of communism and the introduction of freedom and capitalism into the east side of Berlin
The people of Ukraine and Belerus were given the chance to vote if they wanted independance from Russia, and both voted yes, officialy ending the Soviet Union, but the satelite states started breaking off in the 80's.
it caused the 80s songs to be all about the berlin wall
I think you mean the Berlin Wall, which was built in 1961 to stop people living in East Berlin fleeing to the West.As communism began to fall apart people wanted the wall taken down.This finally happened on 9 November 1989 .
The fall of the Berlin wall affected Europe because it meant it was the end of communism and the beginning of democracy.It affcted the people because the people who were isolated could now leave and they were no longer under Russia's rule.
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