Berlin Wall Dbq

The Berlin Wall was a barrier that separated the west side of Berlin from the east side of Berlin. The wall was built in 1961, and torn down in 1989 (History.com Staff, 2016). The Berlin Wall was built to keep the fascists of West Berlin out of East Berlin, and to make sure that the fascists had no influence on the socialist state of East Berlin (History.com Staff, 2016). Berlin was in the heart of the portion of Germany controlled by the Soviets, or as Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev put it, “Stuck like a bone in the Soviets throat” (History.com Staff, 2016). However, Berlin was split between four different countries, those four different countries were The Soviet Union, France, England, and the United States. The Berlin Wall separated …show more content…
Berlin, which was the capital of Germany, was completely in the Soviets portion (How the Berlin Wall Worked, 2016). The other three countries (France, England, and the United States) found this to be unfair. So the four countries decided to also split Berlin into four sections, even though France, England, and the United States would have to pass through Soviet territory to get to their portion of Berlin. This was all decided in the Yalta conference, which was held in a Russian resort in Crimea, in early 1945 (The Yalta Conference 1945, …show more content…
At the time that the Berlin Wall was built, the President of the United States was John F. Kennedy. Kennedy, along with the citizens of East Germany, was also not happy about the building of the Berlin Wall. President Kennedy said, “Since it represents a resounding confession of failure and political weakness, the brutal border closing evidently represents a basic Soviet decision which only war could reverse” (Seven Famous, 2016). Many families were split up as a result of the quick building of the Berlin