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Berlin Wall
The Berlin wall divided East and West Berlin. It represented the split in both the country of Germany and the division of Europe into two distinct armed camps.
900 Questions
How do the narrator and Lou plan on recapturing the wall in the story the war of the wall?
the narrator try to stop the lady
What was the major problem of the Berlin Conference?
It ignored indigenous cultural affiliations in Africa.
Did the benefits outweigh the cost when building the Berlin wall?
The best answer to that is that apparently the construction made sense to the Eastern Bloc, which were the ones that put it up.
What materials were used to construct the Berlin Wall?
Um, I think its made of grass, bark, and human waste. (the waste was the sticky stuff that held the grass and bark together).
The Iron Curtain was the physical boundary that divided Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. The East German military began dismantling the wall in June, 1990. Border controls ceases in July, 1990 when East Germany adopted West Germany currency.
Who did John F. Kennedy tell to tear down the Berlin wall?
JFK did not tell anyone to tear down the Berlin Wall. Instead, he signaled his administration's acquiescence in its erection in August of 1961. In doing so he was accepting the fact that the Soviet Union and its client communist state, the German Democratic Republic (GDR), were acting within their sphere of influence to stop the migration of the GDR's population to free West Berlin, and from there to West Germany and the free world. East Germany was losing many of its best educated, most technically competent people to the West as it became obvious that the standard of living in West Berlin was vastly superior to that offered under the GDR's communist system.
Though the city of Berlin was on principle, dating from the end of Word War II, shared by all the four powers---the US, USSR, UK, France--it was in reality 110 miles deep behind the Iron Curtain. Though East Germany was not an officially recognized state to the West, it exercised substantial power. Aided by the Soviets, it had effectively sealed off its territory from the West with barbed wire, mine fields and guard towers. It could have sealed off the perimeter of West Berlin had it wanted to years earlier.
Prior to the construction of the Berlin Wall, in order to stop the migration, the Soviet Union had threatened to close off Berlin completely and expel the three western powers. When all three western powers stood down during the wall's construction, it effectively allowed the Soviets to back away from their threat and the situation stabilized. In the one area where it had both the right and the power to act--access to a free West Berlin at all times, the US did so forcefully in the weeks after the wall's construction. West Berlin remained free and secure right up to the collapse of the GDR.
JFK selected General Lucien Clay--hero of the Berlin Airlift of 1948--to command the army units that crossed the border with East Germany and made good his pledge to defend West Berlin. Lucien Clay had ideas of his own and ordered units under his command to practice demolition of the wall by force, but he was overruled by the Kennedy Administration before he could put his plan into action.
Yes, there is very little needed to get pregnant, if it does happen, the excess will flow back out of the woman.
When and why was the Berlin Wall divided?
November 9, 1989. Their were 2 reason for building the wall.
1. Economics. Too many well-educated people moved from East Germany, and some worked in West Berlin and lived in East Berlin (it's cheaper there), so DDR lost money on this.
2. Political. The West side interfered with the East side (the Russian sector).
What building is at 46 charlottenstrasse in Berlin Germany?
A European union backed KMart is locarted at 46 charlottenstrasse in Berlin Germany
Why was the iron curtain important?
During the Cold War, the 'Iron Curtain' was important for a wide variety of reasons. From the Soviet Bloc perspective, one might describe its importance in terms of security: it kept out foreign infiltrators while ensuring that no one would leave home-territory without proper clearance. For the West, its importance may best be described as symbolic: it represented the difference between 'free' and 'communist' societies in a stark, generally undeniable way.
In Hindu tradition why do people keep kumkum on their forehead?
kumkum is used to affirm they have a atman (soul) in their bodies and that they are the small atman part of the Paramatman, God.
How did the countries threaten each other during the cold war?
They threatened each other with Nuclear War.
The United States, Great Britain, the Soviet Union, and, eventually France. In which they were to accept the surrender of Nazi forces and restore order. This would stand as a bulwark against Soviet expansion into Western Europe. On June 22, 1948, negotiations between the Soviets, Americans, and British broke down.
What causes the ceiling to separate from the walls?
I'm assuming you mean vertically (The ceiling appears to moving up). Your house could be heaving or settling. You should check your foundation for cracks. You may have a huge problem.
Why did the fall of the Berlin wall symbolise the end of the cold war?
The formed USSR had controlled Eastern Germany and many other countries in what Ronald Reagan called "an evil empire". Reagan saw the change that people of those countries wanted and asked the Russian president to tear down the wall in Berlin. Realizing he could not longer stop it , he allowed the wall to come down and ended the forced USSR control.
This is an awful answer which is heavily biased towards the American government which in fact had no input on this. The wall came down for a variety of reasons including Gorbachev's relaxing of Russian foreign policy dcotrines which basically allowed Communist countries to make their own minds up, without Soviet intervention. Also heavily involved was the opening of the Hungarian - Austrian border in 1989 which allowed GDR citizens to move west. Peaceful protests began across the GDR and the wall fell.
neither of you answered the stupid question
Why was a wall built in Berlin?
The Berlin Wall was built by the East German communist government to keep East Germans from moving to the West.
If you are interested in the whole story, read this:
When World War 2 was over in 1945, Germany was destroyed like no other country had ever been destroyed. Almost 90% of the German cities were razed to the ground by British and American bombers or by Russion artillery.
The Eastern part of Germany was annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union (although it had been German territory for 800 years). The 15 million Germans in these Eastern territoriea were expelled to Western and Central Germany. More than 30% of these German refugees died when they tried to escape from the Red Army. More than 1.5 million German women and girls were raped by Red Army soldiers.
After the displacement of the Eastern Germans was finished in 1947, the rest of Germany was divided into
- a capitalist West German "Federal Republic" under control of the U.S. and Britain and
- a Soviet-controlled, communist Central Germany ("GDR") which now was renamed "East" Germany (because the former "Eastern Germany" was Polish now).
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At that time, the Allies had no interest in a German unification because of the negative experience from World War 1+2. Most Americans and Russians said to themselves: "Better two or three separate Germanys than one united Reich."
Berlin (the former capital of the German Reich) had a special status.
The city of Berlin was located in the heart of the communist East Germany.
But even though, America and Britain had negotiated with the Russians to get control over the Western part of Berlin ("West Berlin").
So, since 1949 not only Germany was divided, but also Berlin was divided into a capitalist West and a communist East.
The problem however was that West Germany recovered very quickly from the post-war depression ("German Boom Miracle"). Already in 1960, the West Germans had nearly reached the living standard of the United States. And the German exports (Volkswagen, Mercedes, Siemens etc.) had even reached the world leadership.
Communist East Germany however developed much slower. Even in 1960, 30% of the war destructions in East German cities had not yet been rebuilt.
So, it is not surprising that
* more and more East Germans decided to move to West Germany and
* more and more East Berliners decided to move to West Berlin.
By 1960, almost 25% of The East population had escaped to the West.
Now, the East German government and the Soviets feared an economic and political collapse of the East.
So, they saw no other option than
* to build a wall between West and East Berlin and
* to establish a high-security border with mine belts between West and East Germany, the so-called "Belt of Death".
Both, the Berlin Wall and the Belt of Death were completed in 1962.
In the following decades, the East Germans had no chance to visit their children, their parents or their friends in the West any longer. The East Germans were imprisoned in their own country.
Of course, many East Germans became very desperate and depressive now. Some of them had a girl friend in the West and couldn't see her any longer, although the girl friend was already pregnant.
In Berlin it could happen, that the girl friend lived only 300 yards away, but on the other side of the Berlin wall. So, the East Berlin girl could see her West Berlin lover. She could wave at him. She could shout to him. But she never got the chance to fall into his arms any longer because the wall and the death belt were insurmountable.
Some East Germans even tried to escape through the Belt of Death. But there were so many land mines and pitbull dogs and communist soldiers with machine-guns that it was almost impossible to survive this flight.
Besides, the East German Secret Service ("Stasi") was the most perfect and radical Secret Service of the world. Almost in every East German household, bugging devices were installed. And almost in every family one or two members worked as undercover agents, who denounced their own parents (when they complained about the political and economic situation).
So, East Germans were in a deplorable situation. While West Germany was one of the world's richest nations, East Germans were 20 years behind. West Germans mainly drove Mercedes, BMW and Audi whereas East Germans had to put up with the old-fashioned Trabant cars (which looked like a pre-war vintage automobile).
The only worldwide success that East Germany had were their brilliant sports results. For example in the Olympic Games in 1988, East Germany won more gold medals than the United States. But, later it became public that East Germany had established the most perfect doping system the world has ever seen.
In 1989 however, Hungary (as the first East Block nation) opened its border to Austria. At that time, East Germans were already allowed to travel to communist neighbor countries like Hungary. So, only a few days later, thousands of East Germans rushed to the new Hungarian "escape exit" and flew to Austria and West Germany.
A few months later, the pressure on the East German government became so hard that the communist East German leader resigned. And on Nov. 9, 1989 demonstrations in East Germany had reached such a dimension that the new government decided to open the Berlin Wall and the "Belt of Death" between West and East Germany.
When the Berlin Wall came down on Nov. 9, West and East German men and women fell in each other arms because they hadn't seen each other for 25 years. The welcome scenes were so sentimental, so dramatic that almost every German was moved to tears for hours. Nobody had expected this miracle to become reality.
Now when the border was open, it was only a question of 12 months until the German re-unification took place on Oct. 3, 1990.
And despite all skepticism of the Western and Eastern allies, Germany has turned out to be a peaceful nation which is perfectly integrated into the NATO and the European Union.
Some critics however say that Germany again rules Europe: this time not by force and guns, but because of its economic dominance.
