https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4 en-us 2022-08-25 06:25:07 UTC 2025-10-10 23:28:23 UTC hello@padlet.com 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271083732 After Germany's defeat in the WW2, the city of Berlin was divided into four sectors: American, British, Soviet in thee East and French in the West. ]]> 2022-08-25 06:30:44 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271083732 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271084503 East Germany known as the German Democratic Republic became the Soviet Union's foothold in Western Europe. Here, soviet force blockade on West Berlin (+next post) . ]]> 2022-08-25 06:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271084503 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271088714 The Berlin wall was built in 1961 because East Berlin was haemorrhaging people to the West. The wall served to prevent the defection of East Germans (about 3.5 million people) and to keep the so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state.

]]> 2022-08-25 06:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271088714 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271090220 East and West Germany signed the "basic treaty" for a progressed diplomatic relationship with each other, recognizing sovereignty. ]]> 2022-08-25 06:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271090220 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271093172 The Soviet Union faced acute economic problems and major food shortage, facing the collapse of the communist bloc.]]> 2022-08-25 06:41:37 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271093172 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271095082 The communist party leader was replaced (the leader who promised economic and political reform), leading to a large number of pro-freedom rallies in Poland, Hungary etc. ]]> 2022-08-25 06:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271095082 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271095264 In August, 2 million people from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania formed a 600 km chain in a protest for independence.]]> 2022-08-25 06:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271095264 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271098250 With protests happening around Europe, this shaped an influence on East Germany, when East Germans are permitted to travel to the neighboring socialist nation without restriction. ]]> 2022-08-25 06:47:10 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271098250 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271100164 On 4 November, a month after the East German protests had begun, around half a million people gathered in Alexanderplatz to protest for democracy. They were gathered for travel rights and the free election of a democratic government.]]> 2022-08-25 06:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271100164 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271104834 In 1956, Hungary launched a revolution against the Hungarian domestic policies imposed by the USSR, but the Soviet Union managed to suppress the revolution.]]> 2022-08-25 06:52:57 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271104834 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271106884 The government resigned on the 7th to the protest. On November 9, the wall collapsed. It was not wholly intended to be open for total freedom. ]]> 2022-08-25 06:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271106884 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271107406 In 1990, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia took advantage of their new-found political freedoms, making moves toward independence which eventually led to the defeat and end of the Soviet Union.]]> 2022-08-25 06:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271107406 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271109137 2022-08-25 06:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271109137 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271116304  Large amount of refugees started to flood from east to west (nearly 3 million since the end of the blockade, many of them young skilled workers such as doctors, teachers and engineers). ]]> 2022-08-25 07:04:53 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271116304 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271117022 Soviet despised the Western Allies which has robust power over West Berlin. In 1948, a Soviet blockade of West Berlin aimed to starve the western Allies out of the city which failed. ]]> 2022-08-25 07:05:37 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271117022 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271119517 1. democracy 
2. mass defection
3. partition]]> 2022-08-25 07:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271119517 34160042 https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271121699 1. How did the Berlin Wall symbolize the Cold War? 
2. About the aftermath, was the reunification of the new Germany after Soviet Union collapsed well managed? What are the political, economical, and social conditions after 1990? ]]> 2022-08-25 07:10:43 UTC https://padlet.com/34160042/7qy6umlfae31gqm4/wish/2271121699