The Berlin Crisis 1961 (Berlin Wall)

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Mind Map on The Berlin Crisis 1961 (Berlin Wall), created by Sophia Hinchliffe on 04/06/2017.
Sophia  Hinchliffe
Mind Map by Sophia Hinchliffe , updated more than 1 year ago
Sophia  Hinchliffe
Created by Sophia Hinchliffe over 7 years ago
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The Berlin Crisis 1961 (Berlin Wall)
  1. To solve the refugee crisis which was damaging the economy and the USSRs public reputation Khruchshev decided to build a wall separating the east and west of Berlin, this being The Berlin Wall
    1. Secret work started on the night of 12and the 13 of August 1961 and within a few months the fence became a heavily guarded 50km wall
    2. The USA protested the wall but did nothing to stop it, it had not violated the west of Berlin and Kennedy did not want to risk a devastating war
      1. The Berlin wall did stop the refugee crisis
        1. Khruchshev was relived that the wall stopped people leaving with only 5000 escaping in the years after it was made
          1. Khruchshev also look strong in the eyes of other communist leaders
            1. The USA could use the wall as a piece of propaganda against the soviet bloc
              1. JFK visited in 1963 and made a point of touring the wall and condemning it in his famous speech
                1. It was a important symbol of the iron curtain for the rest of the cold war
                  1. It made west Berlin seem secure now that the wall separated them and there were no more stand off due to Berlin
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