The berlin wall
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THE BERLIN WALL • 1940’s-1950’s- hundreds of thousands of people living in East Germany emigrate to West Berlin • Soviet Union criminalizes people leave East Berlin, especially young educated people (doctors, scientists, etc…) • 1961- Soviet Union closes the border and begins to build basic fence between East and West Berlin
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THE BERLIN WALL• 1940’s-1950’s- hundreds of thousands of
people living in East Germany emigrate to West Berlin
• Soviet Union criminalizes people leave East Berlin, especially young educated people (doctors, scientists, etc…)
• 1961- Soviet Union closes the border and begins to build basic fence between East and West Berlin
THE BERLIN WALL• Eventually more fortified wall is built; the
“death strip” is created
• Barriers, armed guards, dogs, mines, flares and barbed wire are used to deter people from crossing
• This does not stop many from still trying
THE BERLIN WALL• Between 5 and 10 thousand people were
able to escape over, around or through the Berlin Wall
• Approximately 200 people were killed trying to cross the border
THE BERLIN WALL• 1989- Soviet Union begins to fall apart,
Berlin Wall is torn down by the people of Berlin, Germany reunites as one country
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