Origins of the Cold War

The division of Germany by the construction of the Berlin Wall was carried out after world war two in order to enforce curtain of hatred that was beginning to develope between United States and Soviet Union which were the two main forces after the great world war. The cold war was a strategic contest between the two administrations involving superpowers with differing political systems, assembling of weapons and power distribution war.

The Division of Germany

At the conclusion of World War II, Germany was divided into four occupied zones, each controlled by one of the Allied powers: They were United States, Britain, France and the Soviet Union. Just as Berlin was divided with a deep hole in the center, the same was done to the city divided into four zones deep into the Soviet controlled area.

Super powers begin to arise and tension between these superpowers start to develop.

Cold war between the United States, and Soviet Union emerges and so does the bad situation in Berlin. Ideological differences between communism (Soviet Union) and Democracy (United States was the main cause of intensification of conflict.

Emigration and Economic Crisis

He also noted that during East Germany which was under the soviet control, many engineers, skilled workers and other professional migrated from the west for the east Germany. Combined with some economic difficulties in East Germany, it created an insecurity feeling in the Soviet leadership concerning brain drain from the republic.

The Berlin blockade and Airlift can be discussed as one of the most terrible events of the cold war period.

In June 1948, the Soviet Union tried to force the western powers out of West Berlin by stopping traffic going into the town, including roads, railways and waterways. In return, the Western powers ; particularly the United States organized an air lift to deliver food stuffs to West Berlin. Efficient by American pilots, numerous aircrafts brought supplies into West Berlin through constant and bypassing by the blockade.

This paper delineates the formation of NATO and the Warsaw Pact as security alliances that united different nations for coercive force during the Cold War era.

Out of power, desperation, and fear of Soviet attacks, Western European communities and the USA created the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in 1949. This military gave them more concrete commitment on defence and helped them to maintain the status quo to serve the purpose a guarantee to detere Soviet ambitions. The Soviet Union in return formed the Warsaw Pact in 1955 thus coming up with an alliance party with the eastern bloc states including the east Germany.

This article focuses interests construction of the Berlin Wall.

The movement of East and West Germans continued to intensify and reached parity on August 13, 1961, when East German authorities, with Soviet support, started to build a barrier to Berlin. The Berlin Wall divided East and West Berlin in a way which severed families, friendships, and communities, completely.

Measures to Ball and Strengthen the Consolidation of the Soviet’s Sphere

Main purpose of the Berlin Wall construction was to reduce the high rate of defection from East Germany to West Germany. Before the erection of wall, it was estimated that about 2.7 million east Germans had emigrated to the west. The wall literally proved an effecting barrier to East Germans wanting to go West as it was protected with barbed wire, watch towers among others.

Symbolism and Political Stand

The Berlin Wall was effectively in turning into an icon of the Cold War divided world. It was done to depict the difference of communism and capital existence and to reflect the severity of the Eastern Bloc dictatorship. The wall was a constant brutal and uncompromising symbol of the liberties one could not attain, and life in a divided Germany.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

It was over twenty eight years since the division took place, then on November 9, 1989 the physical barrier known as the Berlin Wall came crashing down after some big demonstrations by East Germans. This event signified the beginning of the end of the cold war which up to date continues to see the reunification of Germany.

The Winds of Change

Historical political transformations in the Soviet Union, in particular the policy of Glasnost given by Mikhail Gorbachev, compromise a system of enhanced openness and civil dissatisfaction towards the current regime. Free from historical enshrinement, East Germans poured into the streets for the cause of freedom and unification brought down the iconic edifice of the Berlin Wall.

From Liberation to Revolution and Globel Consequences

The revolution which took place in East Germany and the bringing down of the Berlin wall had many effects. It paved way to the end of cold war, which testified democracy and freedom against communism regime. At can also be said to have prepared the ground for the reunification of East and West Germany, which occurred on October, 3 1990.

In Conclusion

Berlin Warner was constructed because of the intensification of Cold War, partition of Germany after the World War II and the want east German authorities to keep large number of people from rebelling and moving to West Germany. That was the gen that created a gaping ideological divide between communism and democracy .The cold war’s wearying shallowness manifested itself in the physical. Instead the fall of the Berlin Wall is a moment in fact a historical moment and moment of hope of a better and a more united world.