Berlin Blockade

To a small extent, attempts of escapes over the Berlin Wall always ended in disaster. During the existence of the Wall, from 1961 to 1989, over 5,000 people crossed over. However, it must be considered that there were some attempts that ended in complete and utter disaster. The Berlin Wall was built to prevent East Berliners from migrating in the West where there was a rapid growth in the economy. As a result, West Germans were given the opportunity to live luxurious lives. However, living…

The Berlin Wall was both a force and stigma in Germany because it divided the communist East from the democratic West. The Berlin Wall was also paramount during the Cold War because even though it was intended to divide the Germans, it later united them. From the time that The Wall was erected to the time that it fell there were many radical cultural changes within the country of Germany and revolts from all around the globe. When The Wall fell, it was not only a turning point, but also marked…

research findings on the Berlin Wall, political activism expressed through graffiti in 1961 compared to graffiti during the 2008 presidential election. This paper will cover a brief history of the Berlin Wall and its intended social and political purpose. I will show how expression through art can change political space and majority opinion. I will conclude that the use of activist art in public space greatly affected the outcome of specific political events. The Berlin Wall can be seen as a…

America: As Tough As Steel… If Our Industries Allow It As an unexpected move from U.S. steel manufacturing companies drove prices of steel in America up by 3.5 percent, John F. Kennedy, then-president of the United States of America addressed this move by the steel companies through a commentary given on April 11, 1962 during a news conference. Kennedy, through this commentary, attempts to persuade the accused companies to lower the prices of steel for the benefit of the American people through…

city of Berlin was also divided into East Berlin and West Berlin by a wall called “The Berlin Wall”. When President John F. Kennedy arrived in West Berlin, he make a speech offers hope to the city’s residents, who were enclosed by communist East Germany. “There are people that don’t distinguish the difference between a free world and the communist word” –Kennedy, so he was honored to be at West Berlin because it represents the fighting of freedom. b.…

Reagan in West Berlin at the Brandenburg Gate delivered this speech. The purpose of this speech was to let the leader of the Soviet Union, which was Gorbachev, to tear down the wall, which separated East Berlin from West Berlin, causing division between both provinces. Even though Reagan made it very clear that he would like the wall to be torn down by Gorbachev, it is…

Washington DC that its government will not allow the communist ideologies to push them out of Berlin (Smyser, 2009). Additionally, he stressed that their extensive beliefs on ideology will not succeed either continuously or by them using violence. Because of this, he sternly emphasized for an increased defence US government budget. It was characterised by increased number of American reserves to minimize the Berlin violence. Again, he stressed that the government will purchase new modern weapons…

Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin. At this time, the United States and the USSR were embroiled in a global power struggle, which resulted in a great deal of tension between democratic and communist countries. Many people at the time sought reunification of West Berlin and East Berlin, and an end to the Cold War. In “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate,” former president Ronald Reagan uses logos appeals, pathos appeals, and parallel structure in an effort to initiate the demolition of the Berlin Wall,…

For the unit 4, we watched movies that were focusing on the problems that Germany was facing after the wall came down and the unification. During this period citizens from both sides were kind of forced to get along and help each other so they can help the country and the government grow. But the problem was that these people were alien to each other and it was not really easy for them to get along. Also after the wall, there was a lot of economic issues that they were facing. A lot of people…

The division of Europe from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Balkan Peninsula in the South is famously called the Iron Curtain, and it exemplifies the political differences between France, Great Britain and the US had with the USSR before the Berlin Wall was raised; although the territory…