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Germany surrendered
when Germany surrendered the war and Hitler having killed himself days earlier. -
The Berlin Airlift
Was the landmark event that most dramatically signaled the growing divide between the Soviets and the other Allies. -
The Berlin Blockade
On June 24, 1948 The Multinational Occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. -
Berliner Blockade
The Soviet Union cuts off all land and water transit routes running between Berlin and West Germany, turning West Berlin into an isolated island surrounded by East Germany. -
The divide
World War II is over and Berlin is divided into 4 sectors:
the American, British, French in the West and
the Soviet in the East -
The End
End of Berlin blockade -
The Federal Republic of Germany (known as the west)
In May 23, 1949 is when the three zones occupied by the United States, Great Britain, and France combined to form West Germany,and This action led to a widening of the chasm between the Eastern and Western Blocs during the Cold War and divided Germany into two separate nations known as the Berlin Wall. -
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
in 1949, the prospect of further Communist expansion prompted the United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). -
The communist government of East Germany
In an effort to stem the tide theywere trying to sop the refugees that are attempting to leave East Berlin, but the communist government of East Germany began to build the Berlin Wall and the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War. -
When the Berlin wall was built and why and what it symbolizes.
In 1961 the Berlin Wall was first built on August 13, the Communist East German authorities built a wall that totally encircled West Berlin it separated the east and the west. It symbolizes the lack of freedom under communism, and the Cold War and the divide between the communist Soviet bloc and the western democratic -
The anti-fascist protection barrier.
After midnight, East German troops begin erecting what Ulbricht calls an “anti-fascist protection barrier.”The West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the "Wall of Shame", a reference to its restriction on freedom of movement. -
The Speech of Hope
In a speech on the West German side of the Berlin Wall, President John F. Kennedy made a speech and paid a historic visit to Berlin to challenge Soviet oppression and offer hope to the people of the divided city. -
The Four-Power Agreement
The Four-Power Agreement on Berlin was signed. The accord led to eased travel restrictions from West Germany to West Berlin as well as an opening of trade and diplomatic ties between East Germany and West Germany. -
"Down with the wall!"
Three teenagers are killed when East German police clash with protesters demanding "Down with the wall!" -
Sinatra Doctrine
The Sinatra Doctrine was named after singer Frank Sinatra's famous song "My Way" allowed the Eastern Bloc governments to make their own decisions to a far greater extent. This led directly to the second hammer blow: the opening of the Hungarian border. -
How the Berlin wall is related to the history of the cold war
On November 9, 1989 Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in the city's relations with the West while the cold war was beginning to thaw across Eastern Europe and Berlin was the front line int he cold war struggles between the superpowers. -
Visit from Ronald Reagan
President Ronald Reagan visits Berlin and urges Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall. -
The Death Strip
The strip was covered with raked sand or gravel which made the footprints of defectors easy to notice and offered wall guards a clear line of fire. Beds of nails were also placed under balconies overhanging the Death Strip and where guards in more than 300 sentry towers could shoot anyone trying to escape. -
The First Noncommunist head of state in Eastern Europe
Tadeusz Mazowiecki is appointed Polish prime minister, becoming the first Noncommunist head of state in Eastern Europe in more than 40 years. -
Günter Schabowski
Günter Schabowski, an official of the ruling party in the German Democratic Republic, announced on 9 November 1989 that East Germans would be granted freedom to travel, a large number of people immediately attempted to go to West Berlin.