History of Berlin

Perhaps the most visual reference to the Cold War was the Berlin Wall. Although this wall only existed to divide Berlin into two sides, it became a physical representation of the Cold war for many and its fall in 1989 has been regarded to many as the end of the Cold War. I have always been interested in the background history behind the Berlin Wall. Since I started school in the 80s and was in High School while the Cold War was winding down, I don’t have a great personal understanding of many

Yuen Wai Ng Mr. Kobrowski History IA 13 March 2017 Research Question: To what extent did the Berlin Airlift of 1948–1949 affect US-Soviet relations during the course of the Cold War? Word Count: 1653 Section 1: Identification and Evaluation of Sources This investigation will explore the question: To what extent did the Berlin Airlift of 1948–1949 affect US-Soviet relations during the course of the Cold War? The years of 1948 and 1949 will be focused in this investigation, but some

Researching the Berlin Wall was a true learning experience for me. I am personally not a history person in any way and learning about how the Berlin wall came about and how it affected the people around it was astounding. The affect major events in history has on the people around it is different in each situation. The Berlin Wall torn families and friends apart because of the chance of war between East Berlin and West Berlin. The amount of death was not very high during the Berlin Wall; however

The Berlin Wall “Escape hatch”no more. The Berlin wall consisted of barbed wire and concrete, it was built to prevent East Germans from fleeing for their democratic freedom. Once the communist government realized that their people were fleeing the country they were outraged. According to History.com, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR) constructed the wall on August 13, 1961. Now because of this there is no more departing. Everyone on the East side of Germany could no

books about the Berlin Wall, so when I heard that A Night Divided centers around it, I knew I needed to read it. Time period: A Night Divided takes place in 1961 when the Berlin Wall is constructed to cut West Berlin (as the Soviet claimed as being “fascists”) off from East Berlin. What is the book about: It follows twelve-year-old Greta who’s family has been split in half when the Berlin Wall is erected after her father and one of her brothers left to find work in West Berlin for the day. She

ARC303 Urban (Hi)Stories Berlin in Twentieth Century: Politics and Culture An Urban (Hi)Stories about Voids  Introduction: Berlin as Void In an official advertisement campaign of 1996, there was a slogan written all over the city: "Berlin wird" (Berlin becomes). But "Berlin becomes what"? Instead of a proper predicate, we get a verbal void. In the worst scenario, as Karl Scheffler wrote at the end of his classic 1910 portrait of the city, Berlin may "forever to become and never to be."

Rights Movements and the East German Struggle for Freedom The Berlin Wall was a physical division that separated West Berlin and East Berlin in Germany from 1961 to 1989 during the Cold War. The wall was a symbolic boundary that divided Democracy and Communism physically. The Berlin Wall displayed the different ideologies between two government systems, how they worked and what the people thought about them. On November 9th 1989, the Berlin Wall finally came down and transformed from a symbol of Cold

In his book Berlin in the Twentieth Century: A Cultural Topography, Andrew J. Webber uses popular texts, films and speeches to illustrate what life was like and how the city of Berlin became a powerhouse in the 1900’s. Using these texts from many artists, most notably Walter Benjamin, Webber is able to highlight the differences between Berlin and other important European cities, like Paris, to show how it is influential in comparison during this period. Much of what I learned was not through Webber’s

Due to the Berlin wall families were divided, and no physical connection was able to be made from each side. Jobs from the East and West side of Berlin were cut off. The reason given to the East Berliners for putting the wall up was too, put off aggression from the West, even though the wall pointed inward to East German territory. During the wall's 30 year history, unstable and varying reports claim that either 192 or 239 people were killed trying to cross the wall. Interestingly enough, through

This years topic for National History Day is “Conflict and Compromise in History” and i chose my topic as Berlin After WWII. I feel like this subject ties in with the topic very well and in this proposal paper i will tell you why I think that. My topic Takes one of the biggest conflicts of all time and explains the compromises of berlin. I feel like my topic fits into the theme of this year very well because it deals with one of the most know compromises of WWII. I chose this topic because my favorite