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This map shows how Berlin was split up between the Soviet Union, United States, Britain and France.

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At the end of WW11 Germany was divided up into fourths between the United States, Britain, France, and Russia/ Soviet Union. Germany was divided because it was part of the treaty they signed when they lost the war. Since Berlin was in the middle of the borders the countries split it up. The Eastern part went to the Soviet Union and the Western part went to the United States, Britain, and France. Before the Berlin wall, the Soviets tried to starve the Western side so all the people would die and they could take it back over. But the United States saw the blockade and came up with the Berlin Airlift which was planes flying over and dropping goods and food off to people so the Soviets couldn't do anything. After the blockade came off and that is when they came up with the Berlin Wall. The Berlin wall was put up because they wanted to stop the flow of emigrants so they closed the border and built the Berlin wall so no one could cross borders or sides.

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When and where was the Berlin Wall built?

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When and where was the Berlin Wall built?

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The Berlin Wall was located between East Berlin and West Berlin to prevent access between countries. Construction on the Berlin Wall started on August 13th of 1961. When the Wall was first built it wasn't as secure and there weren't as many security weapons to make sure people didn't cross. It took them two weeks just to get the wall up with help from the army, police force, and volunteer construction workers just to get a makeshift wall up with barbed wire and concrete blocks. Later on they made improvements.

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Map above shows the border where the wall separates East and West Berlin.

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The Berlin Wall was built to contain people in one area. The purpose of the wall was to keep people who were on the west side of Berlin that couldn't cross to the east side and also the other way around so east people couldn't cross to the west side. The wall acted as a physical barrier that symbolized political divisions between communism and democracy. The Germans believed in communism, controlling everybody and everything and everyone is the same. While the United States, Britain, and France believed in Democracy, voting for a leader and dictator. It stopped people and factory workers from fleeing so the economic growth didn't turn disastrous. People would try and flee just to see their family after they got split up. Before the wall was built it was pretty easy to cross and see family or go do something on different sides but once the wall went up it was almost impossible to flee to the other side. The United States wanted part of Berlin so that communism and the Soviet Union wouldn't spread.

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This is a picture of people taking down the Berlin wall and crossing over sides.

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The Berlin Wall fell on November 9th, 1989 due to civil unrest among the people in East Berlin. The people put so much pressure on the government that political changes occurred. The Soviet Union loosened up on their restrictions and allowed people to cross. They didn't lift all of their restrictions but most of them were. Political, economic, and social had a huge impact on the Berlin Wall being torn down. When the news came out people were so happy, crossing the wall, partying, and drinking all night they were so excited to finally see their family that was split up from them and have the ability with more jobs and things to do.

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Shows how wall looked and all the features of it.

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The Berlin Wall had many security measures to make it so people couldn't cross like :

15-foot-high concrete walls

barbed wire fences

guarded watchtowers

gun emplacements

machine guns

guns activated by trip wires

over 50,000 land mines

Guard dogs

nails or spikes in the ground called "Stalin's Lawn"

Electrified fencing

freshly raked sand so they could see footprints if one was trying to escape.

Activated alarm fence

antitank barricades

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This is a guard escaping and trying to cross the Berlin Wall that jumped from a window.

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How did people try to cross successfully

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How did people try to cross successfully

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It wasn't totally impossible to cross the wall or escape but it was definitely and very hard challenge. Over 5,000 people managed to cross the border or wall. The escaped by jumping out of windows overlooking the wall, climbing over barbed wire, flying in hot air balloons, crawling through sewers and driving at the wall were it was weaker. At least 171 people died trying to flee by crossing the wall. People went underground in a tunnel called tunnel 57 to escape to either East or West Germany.

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“Berlin Wall - History, Dates & the Fall.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/berlin-wall.

Lampkin, Benjamin. “13 Things You Might Not Know about the Berlin Wall.” Mental Floss, Mental Floss, 9 Nov. 2015, https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/70838/13-things-you-might-not-know-about-berlin-wall.

“Top 15 Facts about the Berlin Wall.” Discover Walks Blog, 16 Aug. 2022, https://www.discoverwalks.com/blog/berlin/top-10-facts-about-the-berlin-wall/.

“What Was the Berlin Wall and How Did It Fall?” Imperial War Museums, https://www.iwm.org.uk/history/what-was-the-berlin-wall-and-how-did-it-fall.

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This video above is about the Berlin Wall and how and why they constructed it.

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The Berlin Wall, 60 years later | IN 60 SECONDS

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I chose this topic on the Berlin Wall because when I learned about it in class I thought it was super interesting and I wanted to learn more about it and how it was constructed and other things about it. Going into this topic I thought it was just a Wall that didn't allow people to go in and out of the country or border and I realized there was a lot more to it than just that with all the security measures and other things to kept people from crossing. I learned a lot about the Berlin Wall by how it operated and how they constructed it and guarded it, how people crossed it, why the Wall was put up to begin with. My learning of this topic was just more of and eye opener that putting the Wall up was a terrible thing because you wouldn't have been able to see family that lived on the other side for a while and what if they had died during the time the Wall was up. And how people didn't have all the freedom to cross the border to the other side. I enjoyed learning about this topic because it was super interesting and cool to see how the wall worked including the middle of the wall that had lots of weapons. I liked the technology I used it was very easy to navigate and get what I wanted I just had to tap a button and it showed up so it was very helpful and easy to use.

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The Berlin wall separated East and West Berlin for 28 years.

When the wall was first built it consisted of barbed wire and concrete blocks.

In the middle of the wall their were more than one million land mines laying on the ground and 3,000 attack dogs so know one could escape.

The Berlin wall was 12 feet high and approximately 27 miles long with 302 guard towers.

The middle of the Wall was called "No Mans Land" or "Death Strip".

Hundreds of people died trying to escape or cross the wall.