The Berlin Wall

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By Niki Hovsapian Jessie Renew Shelby Swain
The Berlin Wall
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Building of the Berlin Wall!

• Premier Khrushchev demanded that the west leave
  Berlin, and President Kennedy rejected his demand
  in June 1961
• They started building on 8/13/61
• It was made with concrete and barbed wire

• the Berlin Wall!

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Dimensions

• 100 miles border line around West Berlin
• 29 miles Wall between the Eastern and Western
  Part of Berlin
• 45,000 concrete segments weighing more than 2.5
  tons
• 116 Watchtowers

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Why It Was Built

• Economics. Too many well-educated people moved
• from East Germany, and some worked in West
• Berlin and lived in East Berlin (it's cheaper
  there),
• so DDR lost money on this.
• 2. Political. The West side interfered with the
  East
• side (the Russian sector).

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Check Point Charlie
Check Point Charlie was a border crossing
between East and West Berlin, Communism, and
Democracy. It was lined with barbed wire,
landmines, and watchdogs.
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The Numbers

• 10,000 border guards
• 5000 escape attempts
• 239 deaths

This is a comment from a man that served at the
border in the 70's"When I was stationed in
Germany with the US Army, I was assigned to a
unit that patrolled the American sector of the
border with East Germany and Czechoslovakia. Many
times I, with my weapons, looked through
binoculars over the Wall to men like myself,
armed with binoculars trained on me. It was your
beloved Berlin Wall that kept us apart. He kept
us from doing violence to each other. I am sure
those men were like myself in many ways -- they
had families they loved and wanted to protect.
They would rather be somewhere else, doing
something else than looking at the magnified
image of another anonymous armed man. I could
feel the strength of the Wall, and many times I
was happy he was there."
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The Berlin Wall Falls!
November 9, 1989
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Credits!(
By Jessie Ranew Shelby Swain Niki Hovsapian
Credits!(