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i really liked doing this project because we learned about the berlin wall in class and i wanted to know on the berlin wall and i wanted to learn why it was so important to the eastern germany people

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On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete wall between East and West Berlin.

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On November 9 the East German government opened the country’s borders with West Germany and openings were made in the Berlin Wall so East Germans could travel freely to the West.

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The Berlin Wall separated East Germany from West Germany acting as a physical barrier that symbolised the political divisions of the time.

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As leaving East Germany became increasingly difficult West Berlin with its open internal border to East Berlin remained one of the only exit routes for those who wished to emigrate.

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The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 was a pivotal moment not just in the Cold War but in the history of modern Europe. It was brought about by political reforms inside the Soviet bloc. political changes in Eastern Germany loosened its regulations to make it easier to enter the west Germany. checks on the side of the wall became abandon.

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