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This image gives a great perspective because it shows how society works in a world like East Berlin. It shows how many people are sheep, only following what the government says because they fear for their lives. But those who are willing to risk their lives for freedom have a high risk. Many people are slaves to the tyrannical government and kneel to them. But there are people who are different and realize the evil of that government and decide to hopefully change their lives for the better.

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In 1948 the Soviet Union started to erect a wall that split East and West Berlin. This caused many problems for both the East and the West side. The wall was a cold war for the United States and the Soviet Union. All of the allies of the soviet union maintained free access to Germany. In November of 1958, Nikita Khrushchev wanted the United States and the allies to give up their role in Berlin. This barrier divided the nation for 28 years. The wall constructed in 1961 and it's eventually fell in 1989. the article goes over the separation of families and the tragic deaths of people trying to escape.

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Berlin crisis of 1961, Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. It culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961.

Prelude to the crisis

In 1948, when the Soviet Union's blockade of Berlin prevented Western access to that city, the United States and the United Kingdom responded by initiating the Berlin airlift to keep food and supplies flowing to West Berlin and to maintain its connection to the West. After the blockade was lifted in 1949, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and the Soviet Union maintained the status quo in Berlin, whereby each of the former World War II allies governed its own sector and had free access to all other sectors. The free city of West Berlin, surrounded by the communist German Democratic Republic (East Germany), was a Cold War crucible for the United States and the Soviet Union, in which both superpowers repeatedly asserted their claims to dominance in Europe.

On November 10, 1958, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev demanded that the United States and its allies relinquish their occupation roles in Berlin. He also declared that if they did not sign an agreement to this effect within six months, the Soviet Union would no longer honour their postwar agreement and would enter into a separate treaty with East Germany. U.S. Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower refused Khrushchev's demands, insisting that their Berlin agreement still held. On November 27 the Soviet Union announced that it had rejected the postwar agreements concerning the occupation and governance of Germany and West Berlin. Khrushchev also proposed that Berlin become a free city. Although Khrushchev did not indicate that the Soviet Union would use military force if the United States did not comply, it was widely understood that the Soviet Union intended to back up its threat.

The United States and Britain refused to agree to the Soviet demands, arguing that a free Berlin, with no guaranteed access to the West, would soon be controlled by communist East Germany. Multiple attempts to find a diplomatic solution were fruitless. In September 1959 U.S.-Soviet talks took place at Camp David, but no agreement was reached, and a May 1960 summit in Paris collapsed in the wake of the so-called U-2 Affair, sparked by the shooting down of a U.S. spy plane over the Soviet Union.

Berlin divided

As the new administration of U.S. Pres. John F. Kennedy took office in 1961, the Berlin situation heated up. At the Vienna Summit in June 1961, Khrushchev reiterated his threat that if a Berlin agreement was not achieved by December, the Soviet Union would sign a separate treaty with East Germany (an arrangement that West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt disparagingly characterized as Khrushchev "marrying himself"). Kennedy made it clear that Berlin was of supreme strategic importance to the United States and that free access to the city had to be maintained.

By July 1961 American officials estimated that over 1,000 East German refugees were crossing into West Berlin each day, an economic and demographic drain that, left unchecked, would spell disaster for the East. On the night of August 12-13, 1961, the East German government, backed by the Soviet Union, began to build a barrier between East Berlin (the Soviet-occupied sector) and West Berlin. The United States did not intervene because the Soviet Union was exercising control over its sector. When Khrushchev's December 1961 deadline passed without incident, the conflict over the future of the city receded with no further Soviet agitation concerning a treaty.

A major outcome of the Berlin crisis was a new understanding between the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union would continue to have dominance over its eastern European allies and East Berlin, while the United States and its allies would claim western Europe, West Germany, and West Berlin within their sphere of influence.
The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
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Berlin crisis of 1961, Cold War conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States concerning the status of the divided German city of Berlin. It culminated in the construction of the Berlin Wall in August 1961 and the solidifying of Soviet and NATO spheres of influence in Europe.

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Boat! Land! Perspective. By Julie Armock

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Boat! Land! Perspective. By Julie Armock

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What shapes a person and their perspective?

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This image shows a man who is happy when he sees land and another man who is really happy to see a boat. This connects to what shapes a person and their perspective because from one of the man's perspective he is happy to see land because of the fact he thinks he can rest and be safe but another man is really happy because he sees a boat and can leave. This shows what shapes a person and perspective because due to different scenarios. This shows what scenario you are in can shape your perspective on different things.

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¨Choose a scene from the book that reveals accurate historical details. Did history unfold accurately in your book?¨ Throughout the book, many events occur that correspond to actual events that happened in real life. For example, on page 2, it says, ¨There have been stories in the Neues Deutschland newspaper of border crossers losing their lives. Spies and agents of the Americans, the paper claims. Criminals, deserters, and traitors (Page #2) This quote shows accurately real events that happened within East Berlin, like Hans Konrad Schumann, a border guard who escaped East Berlin and was in a very famous photo.

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¨And I dont want you to leave, and I dont want you to die, and I dont want to hate you too, Harry. I love you, and Monika and Ingrid and Hans and Joachim and even stupid Gerhard!¨ (38)

¨You said so yourself. This sorry excuse for a country is all about secrets and lies, and grepos and guns and walls.¨ (90)

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In Escape From East Berlin by Andy Marino, the author gives insight into the time of the Berlin Wall in 1961. The book gives many gripping fictional historical accounts of people escaping from East Berlin. The book follows the dangerous journey of many different people throughout the book, and suspense abounds continuously throughout the book. With vivid descriptions, detail, and expert storytelling. Marino recounts the family's desperate attempts to escape and evade the watchful eyes of the East German authorities and make their way to freedom. This story gives great insight and shows a compelling portrait of the human spirit's determination to overcome even the most insurmountable obstacles in the pursuit of freedom.

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The book Escape from East Berlin and the book Night are similar because they are both told from the view of a kid who had to go through a traumatic experience. Both main characters have to try to get out and survive a horrible incident. For example in night the main character had to live through the terrifying concentration camp while Marta the other main character has to try to escape the wall of East Berlin and get to the other side. Both characters and stories have many people being killed, for example the Nazis and the Stasi killed many innocent people because they were deprived of their human rights. Both books demonstrate deep dehumanization. Finally, both characters are separated from their family.