Crumbled

The magnanimity of the subjects in the modern history can well be summed up in the collapse of Berlin wal. This landmark – the bulwark of the Cold War – was a symbol of cold confrontation that severed a city into two halves. However, what made the Berlin Wall crumble, and what were the major determinants that attributable to its fall? Now let’s take a closer look at the timeline and discuss what factors have lead to such a significant shift.

The present work revolves around the topic that played the major role in the beginning of the Cold War: the Construction of the Berlin Wall.

The BAR was constructed suddenly overnight on August 13, 1961 by the German Democratic Republic (GDR) so that people cannot escape East Berlin to West Berlin. This wall physically and distinguished families and friends the communities while remaining as a symbol of communism and capitalism.

While on one hand the East Germany was unable to contain its citizens physically as well as socially and politically and economically it was loosing its people, the Berlin Wall brought out a new era of containment and desperation.

Mutiny and Rebellion

In years the wall dividing two parts of the Berlin city became an emblem of defection and the unproductiveness of communism. As the construct of the Wall gathered strength, people started protesting against it, mainly the urge for freedom and re-unification encouraged dissent. Everyone on the side of the wall began to wonder why the wall was built and why it had to be that way.

Some of these actions are the event that occur on June 4, 1989, while people gathered at Tiananmen Square in Beijing performing a peaceful protest. People saw young people and employees calling for democracy and the right to free speech. This event gave hope and encouraging the opposition movements within East German and boosting the morale of the protestors.

Perestroika and Glasnost

Moscow of course, had its period of reforms starting in mid 1980s under the leadership of Mikhail Gorbachev. He implemented policies to right the Soviet system’s economic and political dysfunctions – these were known as perestroika or restructuring, and glasnost or openness.

yard rightly observes that the period of perestroika gave East Germany a chance to analyze the state of its economic and social systems. People within East Germany began to seek the countries in the Eastern Bloc countries who were also in the process of decentralization. People’s desire to have a different and better future was enhanced among the population.

Protests and Mass Migration

Poles and Hungarians’ actions that escalated earlier prompted the people from East Germany to protest. Arnold, intense political movements for change, demanding freedom, and political reforms characterized several cities in East Germany. It is necessary to note that at first the density of the authorities was met with force; however, non-forcible actions only contributed to the anger of the masses.

In these protests, what could be regarded as a milestone happened on September 11, 1989. In August 1989, Hungary declared its intention to permit East Germans to visit Hungary and travel freely to the West. Many people in East Germany did this, and they crossed through Hungary to Austria, much to the chagrin of the GDR leadership.

The Fall of the Berlin Wall

After a period of months of disturbances and escalating pressure, the government of East Germany received a choice. On the 9th of November, 1989, the East German leadership gave out that the people would be freed to visit West Berlin and West Germany.

This announcement elicited joy and unleashing of non-public celebrations all over the city. Many people from the east side of Germany went to check points and insisted on being let in to the west side of Germany. Finally the pressure shoved the guards back and people started walking from east to west without any barrier.

The break of the Berlin Wall was a landmark event in the historic process motivating further transformations in the world and signaling the end of the Cold War. It led to the German reunification and was triumph for democracy, freedom and every human being on this planet.

In Conclusion

The general causes of the Berlin Wall can therefore be blamed for its fall because; Dissent, Political change, Protest and Shift of world power. This was a sum of years of the fight and the victory of human desire for liberty and union.

The events surrounding the fall of the Berlin Wall hold important lessons: the strength of organisation, the importance of democracy and triumph of spirit over adversity of environment, when it exists at all.