The question that I will be solving in this essay is why was the Berlin Wall built in the first place and what made it fall. After doing research I have come to find out that the wall was built because people were leaving for the West. “The wall was eventually built in 1961 because East Berlin was hemorrhaging people to the West.” I have quoted this from the article posted on the BBC News page. They were going to the West because they had a better economy and had more freedom.
Now in this paragraph I will be finding out the reason why the USSR and America enemies. I have come to find out that they were enemies because they both represented two different parts of the world and did not trust each other and did not believe that they would both be peaceful. They both didn’t trust each other because they both had access to nuclear bombs. Also they were both racing to get to space first. In America they were capitalists. And the USSR were communists. This meant that in the Soviet union they were equal such as a janitor could get paid the same amount of money as a doctor. But in America there was a free market. This means that they both had different governments and didn’t get along too well. This was during the cold war. During the cold war they didn’t actually have real battles they were threatening to. During the cold war families were separated and couldn’t visit each other.
In this paragraph I will be saying what has changed in the world after the Berlin wall was taking down. After they took the wall down the east and west Berlin finally reunited and was able to cross the border. Also the end of the cold war happened after it fell. After the wall fell Germany had to spend a lot of money and time to rebuild because communism was not working out very well for them. Here is a quote from the BBC website: “it was on 9 November 1989, five days after half a million people gathered in East Berlin in a mass protest, that the Berlin Wall dividing communist East Germany from West Germany crumbled.” Even today after all these years east Germany is still a little bit behind the West. This goes to show that communism isn’t gonna work sometime.
Sources
Savranskaya, Svetlana, and Thomas Blanton, editors. “The End of the Soviet Union 1991.” National Security Archive, 21 Dec. 2021, https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/russia-programs/2021-12-21/end-soviet-union-1991.
“Mikhail Gorbachev: USSR Reformer and Soviet President Dies Aged 91.” BBC News, 30 Aug. 2022, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50013048.
