Berlin wall was barrier between eastern and western Europe (not just German). Fall of Berlin wall meant the end of communism and beginning of democracy for whole Europe.
The Berlin wall both physically and politically separated East and West Germany. It was the "iron curtain" en carnate. The Ruskies meant it to prevent emigration from East Germany. It's removal was...
The Berlin Wall divided East Berlin from West Berlin, walling in the Germans on the Eastern side so that they could not flee to the West and escape communism.
The enabled the Soviet-controlled East...
the families were affected because the rest of there family could be over the other side and they wouldn't be able to see each other again.the families were affected because the rest of there family...
The name pretty well defined itself- like the Great Wall of China ( sometimes abbreviated as the China Wall)- the wall went through Berlin on the East-West axis- can"t call it a fort ( Festung) or...