The history, construction, rise ,and fall of the Berlin Wall.

THE BERLIN WALL The tension between East and West Berlin in the months leading up to the destruction of The Berlin Wall was immense. The societies of East and West Berlin had not mixed for a long period of time due to the fact that a wall had been erected to divide them. Differences in government and varying ways of life divided the people of Eastern Europe for years following World War II and prior …showed first 75 words of 1304 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1304 total…the existence of a wall and a reunited people. To conclude, the destruction of the wall was an important events for both East and West Berlin. Though the wall originally symbolized a separation of economic and government policies, the wall came to be seen as the division of a city, desperately in need of reunion. With the fall of The Berlin Wall came an end to an era of social persecution because of social barriers.