Berlin

After the Second World War, Berlin was split between the UK, France, the US and the USSR as it was decided at Yalta and Potsdam. Soon afterwards the four zones merged into two, namely West and East Berlin. Berlin shortly afterwards became the front for the cold war between the USSR and the West. On…

After World War II, when Germany was defeated, it was divided into four zones, one for each of the Allies. The eastern part went to the Russians. The other Allied Powers, France, Britain and the U. S. divided the Western portion of the city among themselves. This arrangement reflected the Allied solution for the whole…

The Berlin Wall separated the people of East Berlin from the people in West Berlin. It separated families, kept people from their jobs, and caused people to die. It was erected in an effort to save East Berlin’s economy, but in the end it did so much more. The fleeing of residents of East Berlin…

Berlin WallBerlin WallWith the aim of preventing East Germansfrom seeking asylum in the West, the East German government in 1961 beganconstructing a system of concrete and barbed-wire barriers between Eastand West Berlin. This Berlin Wall endured for nearly thirty years,a symbol not only of the division of Germany but of the larger conflictbetween the Communist…

Berlin WallThe Berlin Wall, built in August of 1961, was s physical symbol of the political and emotional divisions of Germany. 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…