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    Martin Luther King Jr was the most important leader of the American Civil Rights movement because he knew how to go out and use his words instead of violence when protesting. He used nonviolent tactics for overcoming injustice such as segregation that didn't allow blacks to go to certain places or do certain stuff. King Jr never gave up on trying to convince people that “All Men Are Created Equal” no matter their race. King Jr led very popular marches such as the Albany movement, Birmingham Campaign

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    obvious that he gave the speech to destroy the Berlin Wall and unite Germany, but what people didn’t realize was it could possibly strengthen the world as a whole. “Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! ... tear down this wall!” (Eidenmuller 3). Not only did this quote state the main argument in his speech, it also gets the crowd excited about the situation. As he said “tear down this wall,” the crowd erupted which got the leader of Germany to tear down the Berlin wall. “Every man is a Berliner, forced to look

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    Berlin Wall Description

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    The Berlin Wall In the end, it gave me great pleasure to perish in the hands of those that I had held captive for so long. My downfall when compared to my uprising was a slow process in many ways, and was both agognizing and beautiful all at once. For I am the Berlin Wall, and I was widely known for my accelerated and startling construction, the many lives that were saved and lost in trying to cross me, and although my destruction was definite, how I am still alive today. The construction of

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    Berlin Wall Dbq

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    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

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    Many good points on the Berlin Tunnel. Indeed, the Berlin Tunnel was a massive undertaking by the U.K. and the United States, taking multiple years to plan and construct and in turn was capable of providing significant amounts of intelligence from intercepting opposing countries’ communications. Even though the operation has been considered a failure due to the Russians having a secret agent, George Blake, embedded in the British intelligence agency and having full knowledge of the mission, the operation

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    Berlin Wall Game

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    concrete wall would be known as the Berlin Wall. The Berlin Wall was built to keep Western “fascists”, followers of a political side, out of East Germany. The GDR also wanted them to stay out because they would weaken the socialist state. In June of 1945, when World War II was ending, the GDR split the nation into four “allied occupation zones.” The Eastern part of Germany went to the Soviet Union, while as the West joined the U.S, Great Britain, France’s land (Berlin Wall). The three point six high

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    The Berlin Wall After the World War 2 East Germany was destroyed the Berlin wall was put up almost overnight. The Germans did not procrastinate, and was the Berlin Wall put up without warning. Orderly overtime the wall was reinforced with mine fields, dog runs, and even machine gun trip wires. Families were shattered and homes were destroyed as The Wall snaked across the borders of East Berlin. For years people thought that The Wall would never fall, and East Germany would be trapped inside forever

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    Berlin Wall or no wall? It separates freedom and communists. In my opinion, I think the wall should be torn down. The wall separates families, no one has equal rights, and the wall is not good for the economies. The wall should come down. Family is one thing you don't wanna let go. The Berlin Wall is saying a whole different thing. It separates families, and they haven't seen each other in over twenty years. If they want to hear from their friends and family, they have to shout as loud as they

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    The Berlin wall was a wall that was up to 15 feet high, which separated East and West Berlin during the Cold War. It lasted 28 years from 1961 and 1989. Throughout this time period, many people living in East Germany left and fled to West Germany because they had a better economic system. Since their lost in WWII, East Germany built the wall to prevent access to West Berlin. Because of this separation that lasted 28 years, many families, friends and relatives were separated. The wall slowly progressed

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    Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was built in August 1961 during the Cold War. The Wall that separated East and West Berlin came to show the different ideologies between different systems of government, Communism and Democratic supported by the USSR and the USA. The Berlin Wall symbolised the difference between the western democrats and eastern communist and the way they though Germany should be led. The significance of the wall What was the cold war and diplomatic relationships? The Cold War was a

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