What effects did the Berlin Wall on Europe?

Answer 1

Impact of the Berlin Wall

The Wall was made mainly of precast concrete panels with big concrete pipes on top of them. It was only a few inches thick at the places the panels were used. Around the Brandenburg Gate, they built this very strong structure with concrete, block, steel...lots of things to make it strong enough that a tank couldn't batter its way through. (The East Germans were worried about a tank battering its way through at the Brandenburg Gate, for some reason.) And in other places, it was big metal mesh panels. These you would see down in the Potsdam area--places where East Germans either didn't live or couldn't see anything really prosperous. They didn't want people trying to escape just to get nicer houses like they saw in the West. And along the Spree River, which separated East Berlin from West Berlin in places, they put a fence down the middle of the river so no one could swim over, and called it good.

The impact of the Berlin Wall was threefold. First, it separated families. There were many families who lived in different districts in Berlin. If Jurgen and Änne lived in Teltow and Friedrich and Maria lived in Wilmersdorf before World War II, and Jurgen and Maria were brother and sister, after the Wall went up they couldn't see each other any more.

Second, it enabled a Soviet occupation on the eastern side of the Wall.

And third, it interfered with commerce. The whole DDR/BRD split did.

Answer 2

With the fall of Communism in East Germany, many Germans began to speak of reunification—the merging of the two Germany. However, the movement for reunification worried many people, who feared a united Germany. The West German chancellor, Helmut Kohl, assured world leaders that Germans had learned from the past. They were now committed to democracy and human rights. Kohl’s assurances helped persuade other European nations to accept German reunification. Germany was officially reunited on October 3, 1990.

Answer 3

The wall impacted the whole society. It separated families because some were apart because they were on one side or the other. It impacted trade because products couldn't go through the border. It was a political reminder of communism and the Cold War and tit was a set point for the starting of a new war should anything go wrong.

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

It physically divided them. Cutting them off from the outside world.

Answer 6

The Berlin Wall affected the people of west Berlin in various ways. They were denied entry into the West and this limited their development. They could not detach from the communist Europe.

Answer 7

the Berlin wall divided east and West Germany-nova net

Answer 8

Divided east and west Germany