What is the significance of the Fall of Berlin?

Answer 1

When the wall fell it ended the Cold War. Communism was no more in Eastern Europe, namely in Germany. It was greatly significant to the Berlin people, particularly those in East Berlin, because when the wall went up, it cut off East Berliners' only chance of escape to a better life apart from Communistic rule. West Berlin was quickly becoming one of the best European cities once again, while East Berlin had gone downhill drastically: economically, spiritually, and politically. When the wall fell it meant that the people of Berlin could once again be a whole city. West and East combined to make the complete city of Berlin once more. Although East Berlin has still not caught up completely to it's much wealthier and attractive counterpart in the West, the West has given greatly to its cause. It is becoming much easier to find jobs and a good home in East Berlin than it ever was, or was close to becoming when Communism ruled there. After the wall fell, many young people, and young families moved back into the city to start a new life, as well as many artsists of all kinds. There are still those in the East that wish communism was still there, but they are very much the minority. There is also still tension between the West and East due to how much the West has had to give up to help it's other half regain its health. Those in the West are still called Wessies and the Eastern Berliners are still called Ossies. There is now a double brick line on the streets of Berlin that traces where the wall once stood around West Berlin, as well as segments of the wall that still remain standing as a testament to what once happened in such a great city.

It marked the end of the Cold War in Europe.

Answer 2

Berlin Wall important because...The Berlin Wall was important since it symbolized the lot of East Germany. It showed that people didn't want to live in East Germany and the government put the Berlin Wall to prevent people from crossing into to West Germany. It was a big propoganda disaster for Russia at that time, especially when both blocks were claiming to be better than each other. They built the Berlin Wall in order to control East Germany.

It was a wall that divided East Germany and West Germany.

AnswerThe Berlin Wall was erected in August 1961 to prevent the outflow of skilled manpower from the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) and other Soviet bloc countries into the Western-controlled sectors of the city and thence into the West as a whole.

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The Berlin wall separated East Germany from the West German enclave of West Berlin to stop the East Germans from escaping to freedom in the west.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961 to prevent the Germans under the communist rule of the East from escaping into the democratic West.

AnswerAfter WWII, Germany was divided into two countries, West Germany (a democracy) and East Germany (a communist occupation of the Soviet Union). Berlin was in the middle of East Germany, so it was individually divided for occupation by England, USA, and Russia. As tension built between the non-communist western half of Berlin and the communist eastern half of Berlin, the communists built a wall to keep the people in their half of the city from going over to the other side.

When I visited Berlin in 1973, things were friendly, colorful, and busy like any big city in the democratic side of Berlin, but when I crossed over at Checkpoint Charlie to the communist side, there was no bright colors, people were not as friendly, and no big stores or heavy traffic like I saw on the other side of the wall.

Some people were shot by East German guards for trying to go over the wall to get away from Communist East Berlin.

Answer 3

Because they wanted freedom and stop all of this fighting that was happening to Germany and plus the democratic side won so they took it down and also the soviets put it up.

It took 28 years to take down and 3 months to put it up.

The Berlin Wall was 154.5 kilometers 103 miles and 12ft. tall.

Answer 4

It fell because East and West Germany were being reuntied after years of separation by the Berlin wall. It went up as a symbol of divided Germany and fell down showing that Germany was reunited and that a wall was not needed to separate the people any longer. The wall fell in 1989.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall started to be put into effect at the conclusion of an international press conference in East Berlin, when greater freedom of travel was announced for people of the German Democratic Republic. Border crossing points all along the wall were opened to anyone who wanted to cross on 9 November 1989, following the conference.

Prior to this date, East Germans were only allowed to enter the West under strict conditions. Earlier that evening, the East German government spokesman, Günther Schabowski, had announced on TV that East Germans would be allowed to travel abroad freely but didn't announce the date when this would come into effect. A huge crowd gathered in Unter den Linden in East Berlin and simply demanded the right to cross into West Berlin. The guards at the Brandenburg Gate were at a loss as to what to do. In the end they decided to let people cross over and merely put a rubber stamp in their passports. Then the number reached the point where even that was no longer possible. The official demolition of the Berlin wall began on 13 June 1990, and was undertaken by former East German border guards under a democratically elected government.

(Note: Since 4 September 1989 there had been huge demonstrations (so-called Monday Demonstrations) against political repression and the regime demanding a wide range of reforms. The protest crystallized round the right to travel abroad. Until 9 November 1989 one could only travel to the West with the permission of the authorities).

Answer 5

Crumbling of the wall signified the unification of Germany and a victory of the people over tyranny. Also it heralded the end of the cold war and weakened and dismantled the communist Bloc.

Answer 6

Because Communism as a government had failed epicly

Answer 7

The answer is that many people had lost members of their family. And it was a very historic moment! Every person could go over on the other side without getting killed.

Answer 8

It was significant because it was part Communist Part Republic and when walls came down Germany became a Republic