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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.
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When did the Soviet Union begin building the Berlin wall why did they build the wall?
The Soviet Union didn't build the Berlin Wall. The Soviets merely told East German dictator Walter Ulbricht to stop the flow of defections from East to West or he would. East German Army engineer units built the Wall.
Soviet leader and builder of the Berlin Wall?
Nikita Khrushchev was the leader of the Soviet Union when the Berlin Wall was built.Joseph Stalin had been the leader when the borders were closed, but construction of the wall itself did not begin until August 13, 1961.
What does Kennedy Imply was the purpose for which the Berlin Wall was Built?
to hide the failures of communism
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What led to construction of the Berlin Wall?
Putting it very simply: the Cold War partitioning of Berlin and the fact that many people in East Berlin were fleeing across the border to West Berlin and freedom. The communist government built the wall to prevent these people from fleeing.
Why did they divide they divide belin and create the Berlin wall?
This is actually two questions.
Why they divided Berlin: Berlin was the capital of Germany during World War II. After the war, the victorious powers of the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union divided Berlin into three sectors. France objected to being left out of the post-war division of Germany (with good reason - the Nazis were highly cruel to France) and was given a small sector in the middle of town. Very shortly after the French were assigned a sector the sector was moved, before they were able to construct a garrison, because in the original French sector stood a monument called the Siegessaule. It was built to commemorate the Germans defeating the French in a war several centuries before, and the French planned to blow it up. Fortunately, we got them a new sector before they were able to and the Siegessaule is still there.
Why the Berlin Wall was constructed: East Germans were leaving for West Germany in droves. I don't think the East German Communist Party really cared if store clerks and ditch diggers left, except that their leaving encouraged others of the "worker and farmer" class to leave too. They DID mind that the engineers, doctors and other high skill workers were leaving quicker than the workers and farmers were. So...the East Germans built two border fences to keep people from leaving. One was the Berlin Wall, which you know about. The other was the inter-German border between East Germany and West Germany, over 100 miles to the west of Berlin.
How did Hitler choose which people to go on which side of the Berlin wall?
Hitler was already dead at the time. No one chose who went where, where you were when they decided on the divide was where you lived. For example: say you went across where the wall was going to be for shopping or something and when you got back it had been decided that the wall would go up, even if you could see your house from where you were you would be forced to stay on that side.
Why were East Berlin were much stricter then West Berlin because?
Obviously the Communist side of the East-West nature of the Berlin Crisis- no margin for error on the Border police- or Vopos- roughly People"s Police- this acronym is not longer used. They also had a plainclothes unit called Stasi- nothing to do with The Girl Czarevna- the title she preferred- though she did know Berlin well!
Did the Germans call the Berlin wall the wall of shame?
Eastern Europe had endured the chains of communism since World War II. They would endure them no longer. Protests against communist rule broke out all over the communist bloc. Hungary began, by voting to increase personal freedom and allow the formation of other political parties, making Hungary a multiparty democracy, rather than a communist dictatorship.
In November 1989, East Germany opened its border with the West. In Berlin, people began to climb over the "wall of shame."
What is the Name of the speech that John F. Kennedy gave at the Berlin wall?
"I am a citizen of Berlin"
Who famously sang on the Berlin wall just before it was knocked down?
David Hasselhoff sang "I've been looking for freedom" and recently complained in an interview that he had received no credit for his role in bringing about the falll of the Berlin Wall.
In what year was the Berlin wall built and what year it was re opened?
what year was the berlin wall reopened
Who spoke at the Berlin Wall and told Soviet Premier Gorbechev to tear down this wall?
President Ronald Regan. President Ronald Regan.
It lead to a division of Europe into two spheres: one that was communist and allied with the Russians and one that was non-communist and allied with the Americans. The dividing line ran roughly from Rostock in eastern Germany to Trieste on the Adriatic Sea and down to the borders of northern Greece and Turkey.
Germany was partitioned big time. One third of its territory was lost to Poland and the Soviet Union and one third of it became communist East Germany which the communists called "The German Democratic Republic." The remaining third became the German Federal Republic also known as West Germany. Berlin, the German capital was also partitioned into a Soviet (Russian) zone in the East and American, British and French zones in the West.
For about 10 years after East Germany was officially created (1949), the Russians and their East German communist puppets allowed people who didn't like it in East Berlin and East Germany to leave the country. At first, they thought it was a good policy and would allow them to get rid of a lot of ex-Nazis and Anti-Communist conservatives in the East German population. However, by 1961, communist government of East Germany realized that they were losing a lot of their best talent and brains in the flights to West Berlin and West Germany.
In August 1961, the East German dictator, Walter Ulbricht ordered a wall built between East and West Berlin so that no more people in his country could escape. He gave East German soldiers orders to shoot anyone trying to escape on sight.
Walter Ulbricht died in 1973, however the wall did not come down until 1989. There was lot's of partying and celebrating when it finally did.
During this period, the people of Hungary rose up in rebellion against their communist masters, in 1956, but the Russian communists put it down brutally using Mongolian troops. They were afraid to use civilized Russian soldiers because they felt that they might not be brutal enough. Many of the Mongolian soldiers carried typhus and there was a typhus epidemic which broke out in Hungary afterward killing many people. Some Hungarians escaped to Austria, the U.S. and Canada. Communist rule finally ended there too in 1989.
In 1949, the United States created the NATO military alliance in Western Europe along with Greece and Turkey in an effort to contain Russian communist expansionism. In 1955, the Russians countered by creating their own NATO-type alliance called "The Warsaw Pact." West Germany belonged to NATO while East Germany belonged to the Warsaw pact. In 1960, Charles DeGaulle pulled France out of the NATO alliance and put France on its own nuclear weapons program. He did not trust the United States to come to Europe's defense in the event of a massive Russian attack. On the other hand, Britain remained in the NATO alliance and decided not to follow France's example.
What medical purpose did leeches traditionally serve?
For centuries, leeches were a common tool of doctors, who believed that many diseases were the result of "imbalances" in the body that could be stabilized by releasing blood.
When did the cold war start and end?
The beginning of the Cold War could be traced back to Churchill's use of the term "Iron Curtain", on 3 May 1946. This came to symbolise the beginning of the Cold War because it was the period marked by political tension and military rivalry, stopping just short of escalating into full-scale war, between the West as represented by the USA, and the East headed by the Soviet Union.
However, the Cold War did not have an "official" start date with a single day in mind. Some historians feel it began at the end of World War II, in late 1945, when Josef Stalin of the USSR refused to let the Eastern European nations go after the war. The US, Britain and France demanded the nations be allowed to chose their own types of government. Stalin was not going to let that happen, and his actions escalated the arms race of the Cold War. Some historians suggest it began in 1949, after the Yalta Conference.
The Cold War could really only truly be seen to have ended with the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the reunification of the two Germanys - one symbolising the East and the other symbolising the West - in 1990. Shortly after this, many Russian states began to break free, seeking independence from Russia.
How did people in East Germany get food during the burlin wall?
They grew it. There was a lot of cropland in East Germany, and the various Warsaw Pact nations traded amongst themselves.
What was the height of the Berlin Wall?
The Berlin wall was constructed after the end of World War 2 to separate the East from the West. The maximum height of the wall is 3.6m (11.6 feet).
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How do you build shelving for walls in utility room?
The easiest way is to build a rough frame out of 2x4's. Put two vertical 2x4's at the ends, out from the wall to make the shelf the desired depth. These rest on the floor and need no further support once the shelves are attached. Then build rectangular frames for each shelf you want. fasten these to the wall and the vertical 2x4's at the desired height. use 1/2 or 5/8 ply for the shelf surfaces. When I build these I make the shelve 18x84 inches to get 3 shelves form a sheet of ply.
What were some examples of things spray-painted on the Berlin wall?
From the fifteen or twenty miles of the Wall that I got a chance to see, if you could dream it up someone had painted it on there somewhere. But my very favorite thing: someone painted a picture of an open door on it.
The wall didn't fail it was torn down in 1989 when the communist government of the Soviet Union failed.
Which countries where on the Soviet side of the Berlin Wall?
Western countries
e.g. China, Russia, Mongolia, Western Germany Alot of these had communist governments introduced by the USSR.
Berlin itself was split-The western side of the wall was mainly inhabited by western Germans and was communist, the eastern side was inhabited by eastern Germans and was not communist. There had to be a divide as it was the capital and Western and Eastern Germans must both be allowed to live there.
Basically, Soviets were west and NATO (north Atlantic treaty organisation- USA, England etc) and was East
It didn't really help anybody.
The issue was that after World War II, the Allies divided Germany into administrative zones, with different members of the Allies having responsibility for different zones.
This was done for the country as a whole, and more pertinently, for Berlin specifically.
Berlin happened to be within the Soviet (USSR) administrative zone, but because unlike other cities it was portioned out separately, parts of Berlin ("West Berlin") were administered by countries other than the USSR.
When the Soviet-controlled zone became a separate (communist) country from the rest of Germany, that meant there was a tiny region of democracy within soviet East Germany. (The other zones merged into West Germany. Technically, West Berlin was not actually a part of West Germany but a separate administrative area; however, they behaved in essentially every practical way as if they were part of West Germany, even to the extent of having their legislature vote to approve all laws passed by West Germany without debate.)
Many people decided they'd rather live in a democratic country than a socialist one (that's little-d democratic as in "democracy", not big-d Democratic as in "the Democratic party." Thought I should mention that to make it clear there was an actual difference between the two.).
And, since Berlin was kind of right there, people started streaming in.
The USSR didn't like this, so they built a wall to keep it from happening. (Also, they were somewhat offronted by the very concept of "West Berlin," and hoped they'd be able to basically starve the people into agreeing to become part of East Germany... this didn't work because of the Berlin Airlift, where other countries sent food to West Berlin by plane; the USSR didn't want actual war with other countries, particularly not the US, so while they could and did stop trucks from traveling through East Germany to get to Berlin, they couldn't really just shoot the planes down.)
In the general collapse of the Iron Curtain countries under the weight of Soviet mismanagement in the late 20th century, the wall was mostly torn down and the two Germanies reunited into a single country.
So, temporarily, it helped the Soviets keep control of East Germany and not continually lose people to West Germany, by providing a physical barrier making it harder for them to simply stroll across the border. But in the long run, it was ultimately futile.
