Building of the Berlin wall
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- Created on: 10-03-16 12:20
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- Building of the Berlin wall and its importance.
- Ulbricht
- Only solution to solve immigration
- USSR as a whole
- Not in favour- could be the catalyst for west to impose trade restrictions
- West could enforce military action.
- How it was built
- Phone lines cut first
- Gradually
- More permanent when west did not retaliate.
- Impact of the wall
- Economy stood a better chance of succeeding
- Improved in the 1960s
- Anti facist protection
- Individual lives distressing
- Many people tried to escape.
- At least 136 people.
- Could control people much better.
- 'Anti fascist protection barrier'.
- Influence of Khrushchev
- Tried to act as pacifist.
- governments relaxed their control.
- Peaceful co-existance
- 1958, asked the west to withdraw troops from Berlim
- 1961, Kennedy refuses to withdraw from Berlin.
- Ulbricht
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