Berlin Wall

The Iron Curtain was the name given to the political among other aspects barrier that the USSR put between itself and the Western or Capitalist world. It did this because the Communists basically disagreed with the ideology of the Capitalist systems.

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Germany was divided into 4 sectors, each to be governed by a different nation. (France, Britain, US, Soviet Union) These were later consolidated into two sectors- West Germany and East Germany. The Berlin Wall was not erected until August 1961.

The Berlin Air Lift, with which the Western Powers succeeded in supplying the city, thus going over the Soviet blockade.

because the wall was in the city Berlin

After WWII, Germany was divided into east and west. The east was communist and under the control of the USSR (part of the Eastern Block). The west was capitalist and closely allied with the United States. The city of Berlin was also divided into east and west, however, the city was located entirely within East Germany. Communist oppression of East Germans led to massive migration from East Berlin to West Berlin. In order to stop this and exert greater control over the citizens of E. Berlin, Joseph Stalin ordered that a wall be built to separate the two halves.

The wall was very unpopular with both East and West Berliners, but it was maintained by the USSR. In the 80s, as Soviet Power eroded, the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev began a policy of liberalization. Then, in a speech in 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan famously declared, "Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The wall eventually became politically indefensible, so when a massive protest demanded that the border crossings be opened, the East German government relented, and the wall was torn down in 1989.

because he was drunk

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It's still here. Berlin has existed for nearly 900 years and continues to exist in the exact same place it previously existed.

The soviets were noticed when they put up the wall. The reason they put up the wall in the first place, was to stop people from escaping from west Germany, to east Germany. The reason they were not stopped when they built the wall was that the east German coalition of France, Britain, and the US, wanted to halt the mass movement of people from west to east. As such, they allowed the building of the wall.

Something to do with being like, the guard, the protector, something along those lines I believe.

Winston Churchill gave his famous Iron Curtain speech on March 5, 1946

TO prevent people from comunicating with the other side of the wall

The following countries had sectors of Berlin: the USSR (8 boroughs, the US (6 boroughs), Britain (4 boroughs) and France (2 boroughs). The word sectors was used for the divisions of Berlin, and the word zones referred to the much bigger divisions of Germany between the same four Allies. Joncey

No there were no curfews in effect for the West Germans.

The first thing that occurred when the Berlin Wall was torn down, was defection from the East to the West ceased. One of the biggest reasons the Wall was torn down, is all the people who had skills that could be marketed in the West like doctors and restaurant cooks defected to the West. (Very easy to do at the time--Hungary had opened its borders but, because Hungary was a member of the Warsaw Pact and citizens of Warsaw Pact nations could easily travel between them, the East Germans could do nothing to keep people from going to Hungary.)

Next, the wheels that led to reunification of the two Germanies were set in motion. The West German constitution contained two methods of reunifying the two nations from the time it was written: one just made the East German laender part of West Germany (this, with a few modifications, was the path ultimately taken), and the other required the two governments to sit down, throw away all their laws and create new laws written by both nations. The only two East German laws of any significance that made it into the laws of the new country were: abortion was legalized (it was illegal in West Germany, legal in East Germany, and this issue alone almost killed reunification), and it became legal to turn right on a red signal. Of course, the traffic courts in West Germany REALLY hated this--busting American soldiers for turning right on red, which is legal in the US, and fining them hundreds of marks was a long-term moneymaker for police departments anywhere there was a US base.

Then came monetary unification. To do this, the West Germans exchanged East Marks for West Marks on a 1-to-1 basis. You had to be an East German to do it, which is a good thing: before monetary unification, you could go to any bank in West Berlin and buy 100 East Marks for 18 West Marks. (Berlin-based soldiers loved this--it was possible to get a pass to go to East Berlin as long as you left before midnight; I worked for a warrant officer whose idea of a good time was to gather three other soldiers (in my unit, we had to go over in groups of four or more), exchange 100 West Marks for East Marks, go to East Berlin and have dinner in the best restaurant in the city. And to be perfectly honest, the best restaurant in East Berlin had better food than the best restaurant in West Berlin.)

Next came reunification.

And finally, came a LOT of new taxes and fees to help pay for what just happened. There's a tax called Solidarity Tax, and the Polizei started writing speeding tickets as fast as their fingers would move.

The major Western imperliar powers came together to divide the territory of Africa peacefully instead of going to war.

During the years the Berlin Wall divided the city in half, one side was capitalist and the other side was communist. The west side of the wall was the capitalist side.

'''Chris Gueffroy died in February, 1989 while trying to flee across the Berlin Wall. He was the last East German citizen to fall victim to the state's policy of shooting escapees in the divided city.'''

Checkpoint Charlie

The strip of land between between east and west sections of the Berlin Wall was effectively no-man's land but was known colloquially as the Todesstreifen (the death strip).

The Berlin Wall "represented" the iron curtain. Strictly symbolic.

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. The end of the Berlin Wall and the beginning of the reunification of Germany started in the summer of 1989, when Hungary decided to take down the Iron Curtain and open the borders which created an exodus of thousands of East Germans going to West Germany. It came down on the 11th and 12th of November 1989.

West Germany benefited greatly from the presence of the Berlin Wall. Not only did it provide their underground network of street artists with a nearly endless canvas, it also cut down on cross city competition in most sales industries, most notably being the baking boom of 1978. Bakers up until this point had to decrease their prices to compete with Berlin market. By cutting the city in half, it increased the profits of the middle class, seeing as roughly 48% of them were bakers. it wasn't until Optimus Prime released East Germany from oppression and destroyed the Berlin wall with help from Megatron and that puffy white guy who sell tires.