https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut en-us 2018-02-23 16:52:44 UTC 2023-03-11 19:12:35 UTC hello@padlet.com jennarezin https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234789427 On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep Western people from entering East Germany.]]> 2018-02-23 16:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234789427 jennarezin https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234791922 As World War 2 came to an end in 1945, a pair of Allied peace conferences at Yalta and Potsdam determined the fate of Germany’s territories. They split the defeated nation into four allied occupation zones.The eastern part of the country went to the Soviet Union, while the western part went to the United States, Great Britain and eventually France.]]> 2018-02-23 17:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234791922 margaretdahl https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234792634 The 27-mile portion of the barrier separating Berlin into east and west consisted of two concrete walls between which was a “death strip” up to 160 yards wide that contained hundreds of watchtowers, miles of anti-vehicle trenches, guard dog runs, floodlights and trip-wire machine guns.

]]> 2018-02-23 17:02:55 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234792634 graycemohs1 https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234792794 The Berlin Wall was made in august 13, 1961 during the early years of the cold war, West Berlin was a geographical loophole through which thousands of East Germans fled to the democratic West.]]> 2018-02-23 17:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234792794 jennarezin https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234793500 After a decade of relative calm tensions flared again in 1958. For the next three years, the Soviets emboldened by the successful launch of the Sputnik satellite the year before and embarrassed by the seemingly endless flow of refugees 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 blustered and made threats, while the Allies resisted.]]> 2018-02-23 17:04:28 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234793500 jennarezin https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234794788 In just two weeks, the East German army, police force and volunteer construction workers had completed a makeshift barbed wire and concrete block wall the Berlin Wall that divided one side of the city from the other.]]> 2018-02-23 17:06:47 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234794788 margaretdahl https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234795690 2018-02-23 17:08:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234795690 jennarezin https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234795827 The construction of the Berlin Wall did stop the flood of refugees from East to West, and it did defuse the crisis over Berlin.Over time, East German officials replaced the makeshift wall with one that was sturdier and more difficult to scale. A 12-foot-tall, 4-foot-wide mass of reinforced concrete was topped with an enormous pipe that made climbing over nearly impossible. ]]> 2018-02-23 17:08:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234795827 jennarezin https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234796766 Behind the wall on the East German side was a so-called “Death Strip” a gauntlet of soft sand to show footprints, floodlights, vicious dogs, trip-wire machine guns and patrolling soldiers with orders to shoot escapees on sight.]]> 2018-02-23 17:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234796766 shelbyfinnigan https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234796787

]]> 2018-02-23 17:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/234796787 margaretdahl https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/235403944 2018-02-26 15:20:43 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/235403944 margaretdahl https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/235542553 2018-02-26 18:31:17 UTC https://padlet.com/shelbyfinnigan/dra9a4pcrcut/wish/235542553