Berlin Wall final project

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BERLIN WALL/BERLIN AIRLIFT Jasmir Spearman 4 th period

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BERLIN WALL/BERLIN AIRLIFT

Jasmir Spearman4th period

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HISTORY

• Berlin Wall:

The Berlin wall was consider a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting in August 13, 1961, it was meant to completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding the East Germany and from East Berlin. The wall consisted guard towers placed along large concrete walls. The Eastern Bloc claimed that the wall was erected to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to prevent the “will of people” in building a socialist state in East Germany. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post- World War II period.

• Berlin Airlift:

In response to this action, the Western Allies organized the Berlin Airlift to carry supplies to the people in the West Berlin. Aircrews from the Unites States Air Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Royal Australian Air Force, the Royal New Zealand Air Force, and the South African Air Force flew over 200,000 flights in one year, providing up to 4700 tond of necessities daily, such as fuel and food.

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EFFECTS

• Berlin Wall:The Berlin Wall separated East and West Germany both physically and politically. The wall also did not allow people to leave or come into East or West Germany. The wall also affected the people in Germany, the Germans could not visit their family and friends on the other side of the Berlin Wall. Families were separated and they would not see each other again. People who worked on wither side of the wall lost their jobs because they could not get to the other side. Then by losing their jobs, they could not buy food for their families. The wall mainly separated the people from freedom.

• Berlin Airlift:In June 1948, Joseph Stalin decided to close off the frontiers that allowed access to and from the West. Stalin believed that if the Allies were unable to provide food and power to the residents of West Berlin, the only solution that could be possibly available was to allow the Russians to help. This would effectively hand control of the sectors occupied by the Allies over to the Russians.

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ECONOMY

• Berlin Wall:The East side was consider dark, unhappy, and poor. The people were trapped in the eastern, communist side. The West side had the bright lights, jobs, and cars they were consider all rich, capitalist people.

• Berlin Airlift:Western Europe had access to funds from America via Marshall Plan. This aid of food, money, equipment and technical assistance; helped Europe re-equip their factories and trade. The plan was rejected by the Soviets who felt it was a plot by America to gain influence in Soviet affairs.

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PEOPLE

• Berlin wall important people:

Ronald Reagan- President of the United States at the timeNikita Khrushchev- Soviet Leader in MoscowWalter Ulbricht- East German Leader

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MOTIVES

• Berlin Wall:The Berlin wall was erected by the East Germans to keep the East Germans from defecting the West so easily. The wall encompassed the Western sectors of the city, which was an oasis of the West in East Germany. The wall was initially barbed wire; but the East Germans quickly began erecting the permanent concrete barrier.

• Berlin Airlift:The Western Allies were only given limited access to Berlin along road and ground routes. While the Allies initially believed this to be short-term, trusting to Stalin's good will, all subsequent requests for additional routes were denied by the Soviets. Only in the air was a formal agreement in place which guaranteed three twenty-mile wide air corridors to the city.

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• Berlin Wall:The fall of the wall is a good thing. Particularly the peaceful way, in Germany, the transition came about and that should be celebrated. Eastern European countries can look forward to growth. Freedom of movement will help their aging demographics. The Cold War passed without nuclear war which would have had a negative impact on our way of life.

• Berlin Airlift:On May 12, 1949, the Soviets lifted the blockade and reopened the roads, canals and railway routes into the western half of the city. The Allies continued the airlift until September, however, because they wanted to stockpile supplies in Berlin just in case the blockade was reinstated. It hastened the creation of West Germany, and, by demonstrating that the U.S. and Western European nations had common interests (and a common foe), it motivated the creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), an alliance that still exists today.

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• Berlin Wall:I believed that the Berlin would have affected me if I lived in Germany, by growing up thinking that the other side was a foreign country. If I was on the Western side I would think an enemy bent on destroying us and include the communist world. I would be told that they were saved by the Allies and knew we had to keep in mind what my parents had done.

• Berlin Airlift:I would feel that after the climax of the Cold War was reached that a nuclear confrontation was at hand. If was in the past I would have built bomb shelters and hope that my school practice drills to teach me what to do in case of an attack. Would also begin to think communists were bad people.

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N• Berlin Wall:When it comes to the Berlin Wall I would have had a meaning between the two leaders and tried to figure some ways we could become to a mutual agreement. I would tell them how the construction of the wall would affect the country as a whole. Hopefully, the Berlin Wall would not have been created and everybody would have been happy.

• Berlin Airlift:I would have suggested that Germany invades Britain instead of the Soviet Union, Japan refrains from invading Pearl Harbor, the Germans take Moscow in 1941, Russia and Germany make separate peace, the Nazis develop a bomb before the Allies, no western front, and Stalin’s red army continues west after taking Berlin.

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Schrader, Helena. The blockade breakers the Berlin airlift. Stroud: History Press, 2011. Print.