East Berlin

purpose of this essay is to highlight several pivotal and historic events that occurred in President John F. Kennedy’s short term in office (1961-1963). The events to be discussed will be the Bay of Pigs invasion, The Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Berlin Crisis. Anyone of these events had the potential capability to catapult the free world into a war with the Soviet Union. The Bay of Pigs Invasion The first discussion and planning for the Bay of Pig 's invasion were formally initiated during the…

School The Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall Imagine being a teenage girl separated by a wall, without your family, friends, and sometimes food. How would you feel? Many people were greatly affected by The Berlin Wall. Waking up being separated by a wall was many people's everyday life. Once the wall was built, people could not leave the side they were on. Germans could not visit friends or family on the other side of the wall. The Berlin Wall has and always will be…

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…

the people of Berlin and gave a speech. His remarks about the East-West Relations at the Brandenburg Gate in West Berlin show the people of the world that there are ways to get through the time of hardships. He lets his audience know that he understands by saying," Standing before the Brandenburg Gate, every man is a German, separated from his fellow men. Every man is a Berliner, forced to look upon a scar." In his 4th paragraph, where the scar is the Berlin Wall that separates East and West…

ironically - a history, mentioning how he is continuing a presidential tradition of speaking in beautiful Berlin. Very quickly he mentions his motivation for speaking: freedom. To the citizens of Eastern Europe, he gives a special message saying that the city of Berlin should not be divided. The Berlin Wall behind Ronald Reagan at the time of his speech is a glaring symbol of the lack of freedom in Berlin. He goes on to explain that forty years prior, the Marshall Plan was put into place as an…

city, Berlin, into four different territories. The most prominent countries, the Soviet Union and the United States, split Berlin into what is best known as East and West Germany. This time period is what we know as the cold war where there was great tension between the two territories. East Germany, allied with the Soviets, was a communist state while West Germany, allied with the United States, was a capitalist state. The superior lifestyle of the West German culture enticed countless East…

former President Ronald Reagan gave one of his famous speeches, “Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate.” On a superficial level, Reagan uses the speech to petition to the Soviet Union for peace, nuclear and chemical arms reduction, and the demolition of the Berlin Wall. He also highlights the progress and prosperity that have arisen in the western world since the division between communism and democracy was established. Beyond the surface, Reagan subtly disparages communism while simultaneously…

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…

The Berlin Wall reminds us that any barriers, we put up to interfere with freedom we can also break down. The Berlin Wall had a negative effect on the world. In August 13, 1961, the construction of the Berlin Wall began and continued for the next decade. The beginning of one of the worlds dividing lines. Before the Berlin wall Germany was divided into two parts. America, Britain, and France created a democratic government in the West and the Soviet Union created the German Democratic Republic…

the Cold War took place, the formation of the Berlin Wall. This was due to the Communist Government of the German Democratic Republic. Their goal was to split East and West Berlin to prevent Westerns from entering Germany. The formation of this wall split families, friends and loves ones. November 9th 1989 is known as the day of the ‘‘Fall of the Berlin Wall.’’ On this day the gates where finally opened. It was not until October 3rd 1990 that the East and West where officially reunited. After…