Explain Why The Berlin Wall Falls

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Berlin Wall Falls
The construction of the berlin wall had begun in august 13,1996, by the GDR although it started as just a concrete wall and barbed wire. The Berlin wall had been built within two weeks, by the eastern german army . Also the wall went through four stages of construction the first was just a simple fence. The second and third were replacing the wall with concrete and setting up traps. And then the final stage with was a pipe on top of the wall to stop people from scaling up the wall. By the end of construction the berlin wall was nicknamed the death strip, the “death strip was equipped with about five different traps and defences to stop anyone from crossing. They were tower, trenches, guard dogs, flood lights, and trip wire machine guns. When it was finally finished the Berlin wall was 4 feet in width and only 27 miles long. At the end of world war II germany was divided by the four winning super powers to determine germany's fate. When germany was divided russia was given the largest part. there were a few reason said why the berlin wall were built. The wall was to keep fashist from the west from entering communist east germany. But the reason was that ⅙ of east germany's population fled to the west before the wall was put up. And in Total There were around 2,400 people that tried to flee to west germany in the time it …show more content…

Presidents Kennedy, Reagan, Clinton, and even Obama all visited the berlin wall. During Kennedy’s visit to the berlin wall he stated the differences between communism and a democracy. during president reagan's visit he challenged russian leader Mikhail to “tear down this wall”. And during president Clinton’s visit he stated “you have proved that no wall can forever contain the mighty power of freedom”. And last president Obama visited to see it. All of the great people impacted the wall and how long it

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