CONTEMPO

BERLIN WALL

August 13,1961

When it started?

When it finished?

November 9, 1989

Why

The Soviet bloc argued that the wall was built to protect its population from fascist elements conspiring to avoid the popular will to build a socialist state in East Germany

How it began?

At the end of World War II, Berlin was divided into four sectors of occupation:

Soviet

American

French

British

Became as the Federal Republic of Germany

Became the German Democratic Republic.

To differentiate between two opposing forms of government

To separate the political and social ideas of capitalists and socialists

To prevent mass emigration from East Germany and the communist bloc to the West after World War II.

Why?

Due to the motivation of the opening of borders between Austria and Hungary

By the pressure of the world, the government accepted the opening of borders and the collapse of the Wall.

The Wall falls by the policy of Gorbachev that opens the perspective of a different socialism and especially the door to those who want to leave.

How it ended?

The wall fell because of an announcement, partly improvised, by the official, Guenter Schabowski, who believed that in that way he could save the communist regime of the German Democratic Republic

what the fall of this wall represented?

What FRG wanted?

What GDR wanted?

a federal and democratic republic.

impart socialism and comunism

lay the foundations for a United Germany

Impart the capitalism

A federal republic

This represented freedom for the two sides that separated the wall.

A new political system that had divided a country.

A new impetus to the social, political and economic regime so that the country retained its identity in spite of everything.

The end of communism and that the two Germans could be one to form a new nation

The fall of Socialism and with it the supposed union between the Communist Germany and the Capitalist Germany.

The union of the international concert to a syntony ... capitalism.

what its fall represented in relation to the socialist bloc?

The end of socialism

The replacement of the USSR by a community of Independent States

When the wall was built in Berlin and marked a division that caused great resentment in society, its fall, marks the collapse of the Soviet Union, who let himself be for only a moment, which was taken advantage of by the block capitalist, in order to end a war.

Conclusión

The main cause of the collapse of the socialist bloc (USSR) was the political and economic reforms made by Gorbachev to solve the problems that were being accepted. The reforms made the Confederate republics aspire to their political liberation, and they did. The URRSS as a world power was decaying and the only thing to solve it was to make reforms that would change their way of thinking to overcome the problems that arose.

The end of the cold war

The fall of the socialist bloc was an event that greatly influenced the world's economy and ideology because most countries began to become capitalists when they saw the fall of a power because of this type of government.