Berlin Wall

The great Berlin Airlift. A rather dramatic logistics undertaking that saw enough food and other supplies flown in to keep the population alive, if not happy.

East Germany ended in 1990.

The Berlin Wall was built in 1961. It was completely torn down from 1989 until 1991. All of this happened during the 20th century.

Stalin. He was in power from the 1930s to the early 1950s. The Berlin Blockade occured in 1948.

The Berlin Wall.

The East German government erected the Berlin Wall in 1961. It was meant to keep the East Germans inside the country and everyone else out. The cost to build the wall in today's money would be around 3 million American dollars.

On the east side, it was forbidden to go on the side of the street the Wall was on. (The Wall was on Mauerstrasse - "wall street." It's still named that.) The west side didn't have that problem.

Colonel Gail Halvorsen (born October 10, 1920 in Salt Lake City, Utah) is a former American pilot of C-47s and C-54s during the Berlin airlift ("Operation Vittles") 1948-1949. Halvorsen is most famous for being the original Candy Bomber.

If you are talking about the Berlin Blockade it came long before the Berlin wall was built. The famous Berlin Blockade began in June 1948 and didn't end until May 1949. The Berlin Blockade was the result of the Soviets blocking all roads between West Berlin and West Germany, meaning there was no supply of food to West Berlin. This led to the Berlin Airlift where the western powers dropped food parcels into West Berlin.

The Berlin Wall wasn't built until 1961,due to the fact that many East Berliners were escaping to West Berlin due to the better living conditions in the west. Although this had been going on for years. In the day before the wall was erected 5000 people fled East Berlin. The first wire version of the wall was built overnight and separated east and West Berlin for 29 years until it was torn down in 1989.

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It was built to keep the people in. Berlin was until the Wall was built, a popular place for East Germans to elope to the West.

The wall divided Berlin in that by crossing over it, or tunneling under it, people of East Germany could escape into the 1/2 of the city governed by France Great Britain and the US.

No, the Berlin Wall is no longer there but fragments of the wall can still be seen. The Berlin Wall was demolished in 1989.

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Most of them went to prison. The Border Command tried to arrest all the people who tried to escape so they could have big trials. They wound up shooting a lot of people, but it was a lot less than they could have.

According to Article 213 of the Criminal Code of the GDR (Strafgesetzbuch der DDR), "unlawful flight from the GDR" (Republikflucht) was punished with up to 8 years imprisonment. The "crime" of aiding and abetting unlawful flight was punishable with up to life in prison.

Depends on the time. Most recently I would say Eastern Germany and the Baltic states because of the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989 and all the Baltic states returning to their original statehood.

A very Touchy question because many believe what they were told in school about Boston and other popular places :

Despite the "Historical Version " it started in Rhode Island.

The FIRST colony to declare Independence from Britain was Rhode Island and Providence Plantations ( actually the State with the Longest Official name as well ) And it was the Last to Ratify the Declaration of Independence by the Remaining 13 Colonies.

Rhode Island renounced its allegiance to the British Crown, on May 4, 1776. It was the last colony of the thirteen colonies to ratify the United States Constitution on May 29, 1790 once assurances were made that a Bill of Rights would become part of the Constitution.

Therefore Until ALL 13 colonies had actually ratified the Declaration of Independence: which did not occur until Rhode Island was assured and Agreed in the act : the colonies did not Officially " Gain Independence" until May ,29,1790.

the wall dident save the Germans they built it so that no other countries could attack them but 40 years later the wall was destoryed

The Berlin Wall was patrolled by soldiers on the East German side and they had orders to fire on people trying to climb over the wall to West Berlin.

The purpose of the Berlin Wall was to force people to remain in the eastern half of Berlin. At the time the wall was built, millions of people had fled East Germany to seek better lives in the west. many of the escaping through Berlin. The wall stopped them and forced them to remain in East Germany.

The Berlin blockade closed off Berlin to the West by denying road and train access to Berlin. The Berlin Wall closed off free access between East and West Berlin. At the end of WWII a Yalta conference was held in 1945, which brought together the three alliances (Soviet, US, and Britain). The result of the conference was that Germany would be divided into 4 zones where each ally could receive a part. The USSR (Russians/Soviets) received East Germany whereas the US received West Germany. However, once Germany was split up in zones there was much hassle over the political structure and government of each division. The US wanted one currency whereas the Russians did not agree. They threatened that if the US was to go through on their planning, then they would blockade the streets, railroads and anything else that might benefit to the unification of Western Germany. And that's exactly what they did - the Berlin blockade. However, it didn't last long - I think it was around 300 days. Even though the Russians blockaded everything to keep US from supplying food, clothes, and whatever was needed the the Americans in Germany, they could not stop American Airlifts. Once the Soviets figured out that they couldn't do anything about planes flying over and dropping off necessities to the Americans, the Soviets surrendered to the Western plans. Eventually, west Germany (pro-US) developed a social market system and hence became a capitalist country with a democratic government. East Germany (still pro-Soviet) had an authoritarian government with a Soviet economy. While the West population was rich, the East Germans could barely afford to feed themselves. The only logical thing for the poor citizens was to jump the border and get into West Germany, for a share of the riches. Since this didn't fly, the Berlin wall was constructed to keep the East and West Germans separated.

It is said that construction of the wall began early in the morning, on 13th August 1961, and took just 24 hours to complete.

The original 'wall' was actually a barbed-wire topped fence. Over the next 14 years more fortified additions were made until the final larger and stronger concrete wall was constructed in 1975. This was the wall that stood until the opening of the checkpoints in 1989.

All this information can be found together in one site:

http://www.berlin-life.com/berlin/wall

Only the East Germany Communist government along with the Soviet Union were strongly supportive of the wall. Prior to the building of the wall in Aug 1961, over 2 million East Germans had immigrated to the west, especially West

Germany. This created a huge "brain drain", that couldn't continue forever. Obviously, the people on both sides of the wall were very upset. Families were divided and cut off from each other. East Berliners, whose jobs were in West Berlin, were forced to find work in the DDR. The people in East Berlin knew that the wall was built to keep them in, not the opposite which was the progaganda at that time! For the vast majority of East Berliners and East Germans, hatred of the Communist state was very strong! Berliners are some of the toughest people you will find in the world. Any people that can survive round-the-clock bombing as Berlin did during World War II, and rebuild their lives is remarkable!

For the East Berliners, life had to go on and adjustments to their living situation had to be accepted, but the thought of reunification never went away!

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, which separated communist East Germany from Democratically inclined West Germany, in 1989, the Soviet Union dissolved. It officially disintegrated in 1991. After this, Russia fell into an extreme economic depression. During the reign of the Soviet Union, 1 out of every 5 citizens were involved in the Soviet Military, so the U.S.S.R.'s collapse lead to widespread unemployment.

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