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    The ending of World War II was the start of the building of the Berlin Wall. The United States and Great Britain helped provided West Berlin with food and supplies to help them survive. This was extremely hard because the Soviets decided to build a wall between East and West Germany to keep the people separate. The Soviets decided to do this because the future of Germany and Berlin was a major point in the postwar treaty talks, and tensions grew when the United States, Britain, and France moved in

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    like when the Berlin Wall was built in Germany separating East and West Germany in 1961. This happened from what happened during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall is one of the most powerful symbols of the Cold War. The Cold War was about a war of words and ideas between the USSR and the US. The Cold War has lasted between 1948-1991. In this paper you will read about this one event from the Cold War about how Germany was after the war. Also these events about the Berlin Wall, why the Berlin Wall was built

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    The Berlin Wall Today people belong to the CNN generation. Any time an event happens in the world today people turn to CNN. In recent years, the Gulf War, and the events in Bosnia have been headliners. In 1989, one event monopolized the airways of CNN, THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL. I remember seeing this, and thinking how little I knew about this event. The fall of the Berlin Wall succeeded in one aspect that today is still not been rectified; The Berlin Wall divided Berlin into two

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    language spoken in Germany is German. Catholicism and Protestant are the major religions of Germany and each have followings at 34% of the population. The next largest religious following in Germany is Muslim with only 3.7%. The capital of Germany is Berlin. (Central Intelligence Agency). German Industries and Markets Germany has a very industrial and transportation focused economy. The automotive industry is particularly huge in Germany. Some of Germany’s biggest corporations are Audi, BMW, and

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    Britain for they feared Soviet-influenced communist parties coming into power in the democracies of Western Europe. This led to more conflict to ignite between the US and the USSR. For example, the USSR built the Berlin Wall as a way to prevent any US influence within Berlin. As a

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    zones postwar: Berlin itself, the USSR divided E. Germany into more four small zones. USSR, US, Britain and France controlled their own zones. The most highlighted event that made Cold Was as a division was Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall erected in 1961 in order to divide West and East Berlin permanently. According to the article John F. Kenedy “Ich bin ein Berliner”, the wall was twelve-foot-high and stretched for a hundred miles. It prevented anyone from crossing into West Berlin and thus to freedom

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    Berlin Blockade Berlin Wall: On August 13, 1961, the Soviet Union that controlled East Berlin (and East Germany) rolled out a wall of barbed wire overnight to separate their claims on East Berlin from the Allies that controlled west Berlin because they thought that the allies were damaging their communist regime in the East. The reason for this ‘overnight barricade’ was to keep the “Western fascists from undermining their city” . Families were broken apart and if you were at the wrong side of the

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    The Berlin wall had many events that led up to its construction. Some Major economic, political and social events that caused the building of the berlin wall were world war II which had both economic and political events, the cold war (political), the berlin blockade (economic), the berlin crisis (political), John F. Kennedys speech (social) and the four-power agreement (political). World war two was a political event because it was between countries and it was an economic event because it left Germany

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    Causes Of The Berlin Wall

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    The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the conflict that still existed post-WWII between the free world and communist Russia. Hard feelings abounded toward Germany for the atrocities it had committed and for turning against Russia, which had once been its ally. Russia used the building of the Wall as a means to punish and humiliate Germany. Proverbs 21:1 tells us, “The king’s heart is in the Lord’s hand...He turneth it whithersoever He will.” Twenty years later a powerful leader arose in the free world—President

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    The Cold War According to Berlin After the end of World War II, in 1945, Germany was divided into four zones, American, British, French on the west side and the Soviet on the east side. Germany’s capital Berlin was also divided into four zones. To identify what happen during the Cold War one has to focus on Berlin as it was the centre of this conflict. Events like the currency reform, Berlin Blockade and the building of the Berlin Wall show how close it was to becoming

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