East Germany

the success achieved by the peace seeking Western Allies. The Berlin Blockade of the East Germans effectively blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the Berlin sectors under Western control. As a direct siege on half of Berlin, the Allies came to this problem with an ingenious solution –an airlift. A little under four hundred thousand tons of food, coal, and supplies were flown over the East German sectors and into West Berlin. Initially, the Soviets hoped the Allies would

Hands of the East East Germany demonstrated the failures of Stalin, while Western Germany demonstrated the successes of capitalism. Berlin was the best example to present a clear view of the Cold War. West Germany was able to show how a through the acceptance of aid from others and producing a stable economy can lead to prosperity and stability. East Germany on the other hand, had no say in its matters due to the USSR’s rule over it; thus East Germany suffered major hardships. West Germany was able

The Berlin Wall was a wall that was made to stop the flow of emigrants from East Berlin to West Berlin. The wall caused more tension between the already strained relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States because the wall stood as a frightening symbol of the Cold War’s division between East and West Berlin. The wall also increased hostility towards communism, because communists had built the wall and people did not like communism. However, would this wall cause as much strife between

simply kept the East German government from collapsing. Khrushchev recognized that the East German government was struggling on its own and by identifying the factors causing this economic strife, he composed a plan that would reduce the negative effects of the economic trough. This is explored in various

resulted in the demise of this socialist conglomerate, and East Germany in particular. The GDR was a special case in that it was racked by some of the worst economic circumstances that any of the Eastern bloc faced, and as result, became the first to fall. Such assumptions compel us to draw equivalencies between the GDR and other communist countries like Yugoslavia, even though East Germany was at a much more disadvantageous position. The East German military also had to provide the bulk of the non-Soviet

The Berlin wall was a wall that was up to 15 feet high, which separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War. It lasted 28 years from 1961 and 1989. Throughout this time period, many people living in East Germany left and fled to West Germany because they had a better economic system. Since their lost in WWII, East Germany built the wall to prevent access to West Berlin. Because of this separation that lasted 28 years, many families, friends and relatives were separated. The wall slowly progressed

How the cold war affected the U.S. The cold war was a tension between political and military forces.The war was after World War II.There were very many different events that went on and most of them involving communism and government problems.Communism is where everything is shared and owned by the government and this had problems because people living in the communist government didn’t want to share everything so the people began to rebel against communism which led to many different things

On the night of August 13, 1961, a giant wall separating East and West Berlin was built. It prevented people from the Soviet zone of Berlin to go to the American, French, and British controlled-part of Berlin (after World War II, the capital of Germany was divided into territories for Allied Powers). The wall showed how both sides had different economies, different cultural beliefs, contrasting political views. Also, the wall separated families from each other for years until the wall was taken down

The Berlin Wall was constructed on August 13, 1961. The reason for this was to separate West and East Germany. People in East Germany received the short end of the stick because “to live in East Germany behind the Berlin Wall meant to live in fear and distrust” (Wagner). The Stasi (state security service) monitored citizens for fear of rebellion. Many students and college graduates tried to cross over but only a few were successful. Those who were not were fined, prosecuted, or even murdered. The

Soviet Union and East Germany; it showed the communist to be tyrannical in the way they controlled the movement (The Berlin Wall). The Wall was built because of a long lasting suspicion among the Soviet Union on one side and Western Europe and the United States on the other. Once World War II was over, these Allies no longer had a common purpose to hold them together.