What Is Globalization?

Within the center of this division lay Berlin. Russia’s communist intentions were becoming clearer to western powers. Stalin had no plans to back down from further conflict. In 1946, Churchill delivered the “Iron Curtain” speech, symbolizing future relations with the communist powers. In 1947, U.S. president Truman established his famous doctrine of containment policy, which outlined in vague terms the west’s distain and containment intentions of further communist expansion by Russia. In 1948, Americans witnessed the pressurized showdown in Berlin between western forces and Russian occupiers, which eventually led to the division of Germany, and the construction of the Berlin Wall. Once, the Russians began developing and testing nuclear weapons, and the subsequent development of space flight, Americans placed their lives in the hands of their government to handle this new, Cold War.

In the late 1940’s Berlin became the dividing line between Communism and Capitalism. This beleaguered city was to be the front line of the Cold War. In 1948 The city, divided into four sectors, one of which was occupied by the Soviet Union, was engaged in a life or death struggle for survival. The Berlin Airlift was not simply a struggle for the life of one city. The city was a prize in the game of chess between the west and the Soviet Union. The media of the day utilized rhetoric and propaganda to influence the emotions and allegiances of the people who read them.

Following the fall of the Third Reich at the end of WWII Germany was split between east and west into two different countries. In the east the German Democratic Republic was under communist rule and was supported by the Soviet Union. The Federal German Republic was a democracy that was part of NATO. As part of the division of Germany following WWII, Berlin, the capital of Germany was divided evenly between the two nations. However, the entire city of Berlin was deep inside of the GDR, so the Western half of the city was democratic but it was surrounded by communist territory. This made West Berlin a place where many East Germans would try to escape to. As a result of this the German Democratic Republic built a wall surrounding West Berlin to stop its own people from escaping to freedom.

Could you imagine a large wall being built right in the middle of a city to split it? Well this is how the Soviet Union and the United States had to deal with during the Cold War. The Cold War was a broxing War between the Soviet Union and the United States that lasted from 1947-1991. This paper will be written about the Berlin Wall. I will be writing about why they built and what they made this out of, people escaping, and why the wall ever actually fell. Well, first of all In 1945, at the end of WWII, Germany and the city of Berlin were divided into four zones, each controlled by one of WWII’s victors. America, France, and Great Britain had west Berlin, also known as the Federal Republic of Germany, and the

In conclusion, the Berlin Wall was built for political, and economical, in a way for the Soviet Union to preserve their communist system and stop "brain drain" in East German. These strategies did not improve the situation for East German as the people didnt like the communist system of Government and still found ways to getaway. While the erection of The Berlin Wall didn’t prove to be successful for the Soviet Union; the fall of the wall brought back families, friends and a separated nation back

The United States wanted to get rid of communism, but the USSR wanted the opposite. The Cold War started in 1949 and finally ended in 1991, only two years after the Wall came down. In this essay I will be talking about the three main reasons the Wall came down- which are the USSR’s economic situation, the East German protesters, and the Soviet Union communist leader. The Soviet’s economic situation

After World War Two, Berlin as well as all of Germany was devastated and the city of Berlin was left in ruin as the German people unable to get electricity,gas,food, or even transportation.Disease became rampant in major cities.To stop the societal collapse of Germany, Britain,the United States, along with the Soviet Union who were called the European Advisory Commission gave aid to Germany and began to plan an occupation On May 23,1949, the country was divided into three zones andt he Soviets controlled the eastern region of Germany while Britain,and the United States controlled the western areas of Germany. The city of Berlin became apart of the border between the three regions.The city

The focus of this investigation will be “What factors lead to the collapse of Communist East Germany and the Berlin Wall? The time periods 1980’s to 1990’s will be used to analyze the factors that led to the downfall of Communist East Germany and the Berlin Wall.Primary and secondary sources will be used to gather information for the investigation process. Information gathered from a book, Serge Schmemann’s When the Wall Came Down: The Berlin Wall and the Fall of Soviet Communism, and an online article written by Ed Grabianowski, How the Berlin Wall Worked.

President John F. Kennedy’s speech, “Ich bin ein Berliner” (1963),affirms that he is against the communist beliefs held within the West Berlin’s government and commends the resilience of the Berliners impacted. President Kennedy backs this claim up by claiming anyone who believes in communism should come to Berlin and witness what is taking place all while commending the people on their strength. JFK’s purpose was to not only to advocate for those stuck within the Berlin wall, but he uses the platform he has to emphasize the consequences a communist government can have on the nation. However, while his speech gave motivation to the population and disagrees with communist beliefs, his speech did not aid the Berliners.

The Free University was going to bring with it a new dynamic to an old West Berlin. Originally, the idea behind the university was to bind together West Berlin with the western powers who controlled it; a goal to westernize and make anew a post-industrialized society by creating new urban neighborhoods and roads that promised more logistical presence, due the increase in automobiles throughout the growing microcosm that this territory embodied (Baird 69). In addition to the external city improvements, the university promised to be an institution of grand proportion with Candilis, an original architect and creative thinker behind the Free University, writing, “The total floor area required in the first state is approximately 1,000,000 sq. ft. In this project lecture halls account for 176,000sq. ft. informal teaching and seminar rooms for 428,000 sq. ft. recreational space for 120,000 sq. ft.” (369). The University promised to be enormous. Instructions given to the architects to design such an edifice were passed down from western governments, guaranteeing the Free University’s presence would be known to everyone in Berlin because of the radical democratic ideals that were promised be taught (Anthon 58). This university was going to challenge conventional thinking on the price we pay for an education, both monetarily and through the

After World War II, Berlin had been a constant problem area in East-West relations. In 1948-49 Joseph Stalin had tried to blockade the Western sectors into submission by closing off all the land routes into the city, which were almost a hundred miles inside Soviet-occupied territory. The West surprised him with a successful airlift that kept West Berlin supplied with sufficient essentials to survive. However, Stalin’s death prevented a wall or something similar being constructed in 1953. In 1958, his successor, the unpredictable Nikita Khrushchev, had started threatening West Berlin’s status once more. The Soviet leader compared the Allied-occupied sectors to the West’s testicles. If, he joked, he wanted to cause NATO pain, all he had to

“Ich bin ein Berliner,” written and forcefully enunciated by John Fitzgerald Kennedy to the West Berliners on June 26th, 1963, declared the United States’ solidarity with the people of West Berlin, that they would always have support, that they would always have the freedom to govern themselves even in the face of seemingly-overwhelming pressure from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. JFK got his message across to the West Berliners by way of ethos, pathos, logos, and clever use of diction.

August 13, 1961 Berlin, a thirteen foot concrete wall was being built to split Berlin into two, The East and The West. Some chose to stay, others left in fear of what was to come. A fifth of East Germany’s population had fled to the west, escaping the communist of the east. The wall left a tragic scar on all of Germany. Yet the wall could have been prevented, so why was the wall built? I will explain to you how the wall was built, through the discussion of East and West Germans’ relations and power struggles, what happened right before the wall was built, and the Berlin Wall being built.

Through the course of our lives we only have a finite amount of time to live and experience the world around us. Between the summer of my junior and senior year I was privileged with the opportunity to go on a week and half long tour of Europe. To see and experience the culture and enrichment that Europe provides to a foreigner, a novice is breathtaking. Along with other students and a few chaperones we first landed in Berlin, Germany, in short to me the city was the culmination of German culture that was beautiful in every sense of the world. Visiting the Brandenburg Gate, the Reichstag and what was left of the Berlin Wall put into perspective a history that really I never experienced and yet still plays a pivotal role in the workings and

When the prominent Indian economist B. R. Shenoy visited Berlin in 1960, he witnessed two completely differing parts of the same city (Shenoy). A wall divided Berlin into two separate areas, West Berlin and East Berlin. West Berlin, a capitalist economy, boomed with economic freedom and prosperity. While East Berlin, a command economy, verged on economic collapse. The example of West and East Berlin demonstrates that a capitalist economy, also known as a free market economy, is better than a command economy.