The fall of the Berlin Wall marked both the crumbling of communism and a new era for all citizens of Berlin. For a timespan of twenty-eight years the Berlin Wall stood as a cage, built not to keep people out, but to keep East Berliners in. With the Berlin Wall’s eradication, Germany would be reunited once more. The communist regime stood no longer, commencing a shaky start on the road to freedom. This was just another example of how communism would always fail.
The end of World War II resulted in Germany being divided into four “allied occupation zones,” as was decided at the conferences of Yalta and Potsdam. Each individual zone belonged to one of the main Allied powers: the United States, the USSR, Great Britain and France. The United States, …show more content…
The wall transformed over the years, going through four “generations.” The first generation consisted of barbed wire and a concrete wall. Shortly after the first generation of the wall was completed, orders were given to shoot anyone attempting to escape on sight. The fourth and final generation of the Berlin Wall was recorded to have been approximately twelve feet tall and twenty-seven miles long, complete with steel tubing across the top (Lynch, 2014). On the eastern side of the wall, there was an area known as the “Death Strip.” The “Death Strip” was made up of many obstacles, including floodlights, monstrous dogs, armed soldiers, barbed wire, trip-wire machine guns, and beds of nails (History.com Staff, …show more content…
It’s plain and simple; people will always want more. Humans are notoriously greedy creatures. They crave the freedoms offered by democracy. Communism may have held out for a number of years in numerous countries, such as Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria, but the beginning of an uprising was inevitable in all cases. If rations are distributed equally to each individual citizen, they no longer have such a strong incentive to work harder. Thus, the people working more challenging jobs lose a fair amount of their motivation. As more and more workers began to view this situation as being entirely unjust, the number of labor strikes rose quite rapidly in many countries (Flamehorse,
The end of World War II resulted in Germany being divided into four “allied occupation zones,” as was decided at the conferences of Yalta and Potsdam. Each individual zone belonged to one of the main Allied powers: the United States, the USSR, Great Britain and France. The United States, …show more content…
The wall transformed over the years, going through four “generations.” The first generation consisted of barbed wire and a concrete wall. Shortly after the first generation of the wall was completed, orders were given to shoot anyone attempting to escape on sight. The fourth and final generation of the Berlin Wall was recorded to have been approximately twelve feet tall and twenty-seven miles long, complete with steel tubing across the top (Lynch, 2014). On the eastern side of the wall, there was an area known as the “Death Strip.” The “Death Strip” was made up of many obstacles, including floodlights, monstrous dogs, armed soldiers, barbed wire, trip-wire machine guns, and beds of nails (History.com Staff, …show more content…
It’s plain and simple; people will always want more. Humans are notoriously greedy creatures. They crave the freedoms offered by democracy. Communism may have held out for a number of years in numerous countries, such as Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria, but the beginning of an uprising was inevitable in all cases. If rations are distributed equally to each individual citizen, they no longer have such a strong incentive to work harder. Thus, the people working more challenging jobs lose a fair amount of their motivation. As more and more workers began to view this situation as being entirely unjust, the number of labor strikes rose quite rapidly in many countries (Flamehorse,