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The Berlin Crisis: a divided city
- Refugee problems
- The east German government was
unpopular so many eastern Germans
fled to the west
- West Germany was attractive, as
there was more wealth and people
had a better quality of life
- Between 1946 and 1961 2.7 million
East German refugees fled to the West
of Germany
- It was made easy
because east Germans
fled to east Berlin then
crossed to the west and
escaped into the west of
German (easy access to a
better quality of life and
more jobs)
- It was made easy
because east Germans
fled to east Berlin then
crossed to the west and
escaped into the west of
German (easy access to a
better quality of life and
more jobs)
- Between 1946 and 1961 2.7 million
East German refugees fled to the West
of Germany
- West Germany was attractive, as
there was more wealth and people
had a better quality of life
- The east German government was
unpopular so many eastern Germans
fled to the west
- Khrushchev's challenge
- He had the challenge of finding a
solution to stop people fleeing
over the the west. He was in a
difficult position and needed to act
dicisively to solve the propaganda
disaster (it proved many people
preferred west Berlin to east).
- He came up with the solution of asking the US to withdraw
troops from Berlin within 6 months (the six month ultimatum)
and declared the whole of Berlin to be officially owned by East
Germany
- He came up with the solution of asking the US to withdraw
troops from Berlin within 6 months (the six month ultimatum)
and declared the whole of Berlin to be officially owned by East
Germany
- He wanted to humiliate the US
by not letting any more people
escape to the West of Germany
to prove their plan of influencing
capitalism had failed
- He had the challenge of finding a
solution to stop people fleeing
over the the west. He was in a
difficult position and needed to act
dicisively to solve the propaganda
disaster (it proved many people
preferred west Berlin to east).
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