We Didn't Start the Fire

The Berlin Wall was erected on August 13, 1961. After World War II, Germany was divided into four Allied occupation zones; Berlin, the German capital, was also divided into occupation sectors, even though it was located deep within the Soviet zone (History.com). In post war Germany, Cold War tensions grew, from situations such as the Berlin Blockade and the US’ Berlin Airlift (History.com). Not only were Cold War tensions growing but East Germany was now under a communist system (History.com). West Germany was in better condition because, unlike in East Germany, it received financial aid from the Marshall Plan (Burkhardt, H). Another big problem was the two different currencies used; West German currency, which was also use in West Berlin,

During the 1930’s America faced depression, child slavery, war and many more overwhelming issues. With the sorrow America went through over years, came artists with stories creating beautiful music. Artists effortlessly made music personally on how they felt and it became anthems of horrific or priceless moments about America. Wonderful works such as “Brother Can You Spare Me A Dime” by Jay Gorney and “We Didn’t Start The Fire” by Billy Joel, sums up the trials and tribulations America has been through. Jay Gorney’s song reflects a time of lamenting loss of identity, respect, and income. During the great depression many people felt misguided about the oh so great American dream because the symbolic American dream seemed almost impossible to reach during such a crisis. In Billy Joel’s song, he summed up everything his generation got blamed for and tried to clean it up some of the mess it inherited. Such as: Marilyn Monroe, Richard Nixon, H-bomb, Malcom X and AIDS.

In the song “We didn´t start the fire” Billy Joel does a summary of the most relevant events that took place between 1949 and 1989. The events mentioned in the song include political, cultural, and historical events. Billy Joel´s generation was involved in these events mentioned in the song. His generation is blamed for all the conflicts that occurred in those forty years, when in reality, those conflicts have roots many generations in the past. He portrays the positive and negative effects his generation had in the world. In the positive side, they had advances in science and many cultural events. In the other hand, they were involved in dozens of conflicts all around the world that left misery and death. He emphasizes that many of the

“We Didn’t Start the Fire” is a song written by Billy Joel. The song's lyrics consist historical events, people, and other important things in history from 1949-1989 mainly around the Cold War. The Cold War was a major event in history that changed humanity forever. The song explains that the citizens going about their day aren’t responsible for the Major events going on in the world during this time. People around the world didn’t try to stop the fighting though. The Chorus of the song discusses the fact that nothing we have done in recent years is directly responsible for the problems with the world. The next line after that explains that every generation tries to fix the issues of the last generation and anything we try to fix won’t have

On February 16, 1959 Fidel Castro was sworn in as prime minister of Cuba. Cuba was the first communist state on the west side of the world. Castro has had more than 600 assassination attempts on him. His fight for prime minister of Cuba was not an easy task for him. He had to fight for it. Castro led 160 of his men in a attack on Moncada Barracks. His plan was to take weapons and tell of his revolution from the Barracks radio station, but most of his men died and Castro got arrested and put on trial for trying to overthrow the Cuban government. He argued that he was trying to make a democracy in Cuba but he still got 15 years in prison. Then two years later prime minister Batista let him got because he felt that Castro wouldn’t try attacking the Cuban government again. He later went to his brother Raul in Mexico and planned another attack on the Cuban government, but with only had 81 people to fight with him. On December 2, 1956 his 81 men landed on the Cuban coast. All but Castro, Raul, and ten other were killed or captured. Then they retreated and started guerrilla warfare on the Cuban government and caused

The song “We Didn’t Start The Fire” is naming the things that happened in the

American composer and pianist Billy Joel wrote the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” regarding the important events that occurred in the twentieth century. Joel was born in 1949 after World War II. Joel said that the meaning behind “We Didn’t Start the Fire” was to inform his audience that all the events that he spoke about in this song were not his generation’s fault, but the fault of their predecessors. The song became a best seller and a great success and in 1989 it was nominated for a Grammy Award. One of the most famous lyrics in the song is “JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say”.

In August of 1961 one city became two separated by a wall. Families were divided and lives torn apart from the separation. The East side was ruled by communism while the West side was democratic. The wall became known as the Berlin Wall, and it stayed there for twenty-nine years. During that time, East Berlin became terribly poor under the iron fist rulings of communism. West Berlin, on the other hand, prospered economically. Then, in 1989, the wall finally began to fall as citizens of West Berlin began to hack away at the wall.

The aim of this essay is to evaluate and understand the effects on the city of Berlin with the creation of the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall has played an extremely important role in the life of millions of people. This 155km Wall has defined the fate of German people that have been separated by the Wall for a very long time.

The berlin wall was and always will be an important moment in history, and the cold wars. Many were affected and even killed by the simple aspect of a ‘wall’. Originally, Nikita khrushchev rejected the request to built the wall, in 1953, but relented in the end because of how many people crossing a day, by 1961. Even John Fitzgerald Kennedy agreed that “It's not a very nice solution, but a wall is a heck lots better than a war”.

The Berlin War that partitioned sections of Berlin from 1961 to 1989 was both physical and psychological. What started as a means of preventing educated workers from leaving the Communist controlled sector of Berlin for the western controlled sectors became a hotspot of tension and conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. The Berlin Wall stood as a physical line of demarcation for the ideological differences between the two “Super Powers” of the capitalist United States and the communist Soviet Union.

The Berlin Wall was a barrier that completely separated East and West Berlin during the time of the Cold War. It was constructed August 13th, 1961 and fell November 9th, 1989 from demolition. After WWII Germany was divided between the Soviets (East Germany) and the Allies (West Germany) to separate the two ideologies of communism and capitalism. The wall restricted movement from East to West Berlin, so citizens under communist rule could not escape to capitalism. People in East Berlin wanted to escape from communism because there were under strict control and weren't allowed to own anything from land to businesses. The Berlin wall was a symbol of the Cold War that was built as tensions increased between the Soviet Union and the US at the end

The Berlin Wall was erected in 1961 to separate West and East Germany. The wall was to keep East Berliners’ from leaving to live in the West. The impacts of the wall were far greater than keeping people in. The Berlin Wall kept Eastern Europe from prospering after WWII. While the West (West Germany, U.S., U.K., France) under capitalism flourished, East Germany and all of Eastern Europe fell behind. Individual citizens were unhappy, technology lagged, and there were shortages of basic necessities.

Along with the separate and much longer inner German border, the Berlin Wall became to symbolize a physical marker of the Iron Curtain that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was the guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. The wall was constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR), which was communist, and it cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin, who wasn't communist. They started building the wall on 13th of August 1961. The barrier was a large concrete wall with guard towers along it.

11/9/89: The Berlin Wall for many years served as a barrier between West Berlin and East Germany. It prevented a global view of the future as well by forcing the population of East Germany to be totally secluded from the rest of the world. The fall of the Berlin wall on 11/9/89 changed everything. Not only did this weaken communism, it tipped the balance of power across the world towards democratic advocacy, consensual governance and a free-market economy. The effect was