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Fall of Berlin Wall

8 min4 lessonsNovice
What you’ll learn

  1. You'll understand how post-WWII tensions between the Soviet Union and Western powers led to Germany being split into occupied zones and eventually two separate nations.

  2. You'll learn why East Germany constructed the wall in 1961 to stop mass emigration and contain its struggling communist economy against the prosperous West.

  3. You'll see how Gorbachev's policies of openness and reform weakened Soviet control, emboldening East Germans to demand freedom and hastening the wall's fall in 1989.

  4. You'll grasp how the wall's fall reunified Germany, ended Soviet dominance in Eastern Europe, and reshaped the continent's political and economic power structure.

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What you'll learn

  1. Cold War and Germany's Division. After World War II ended in 1945, Germany lay in ruins. The Soviet Union, the United States, Britain, and France had all fought against Nazi Germany together, but they didn't…
  2. Why the Berlin Wall Was Built. The Berlin Wall was built by East Germany in 1961 to stop its own citizens from leaving and to protect a failing economy — think of it as a fence around a sinking ship to keep the…

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