I need to know EVERY SINGLE TINY THING there is to know about The Berlin Wall. Help?

Question

I need to write a 1 min 30 secs to 2 min 30 secs report on The Berlin Wall. So far I have about ten seconds of that. Tell me every thing you know, please. Links would be helpful, too, just don't give me wikipedia or anything that hard to understand. Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

Here are two good Web sites about the Berlin Wall.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_Wall



http://www.newseum.org/berlinwall/



The Festival of Freedom will commemorate the end of the wall. It is coming up in about 10 days. Here is an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about the festival:



20th anniversary celebrations



On November 9, 2009, Berlin will celebrate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall with a "Festival of Freedom", during which over 1,000 foam domino tiles over 8 feet tall will be stacked along the former route of the wall in the city center and toppled.[59]



In the United States, the German Embassy is coordinating a public diplomacy campaign with the motto "Freedom Without Walls" to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The campaign is focused on promoting awareness of the fall of the Berlin Wall among current college students, and students at over 20 universities will participate in "Freedom Without Walls" events in late 2009.[64]



An international project called "Mauerreise" – Journey of the Wall takes place in various countries. Twenty symbolic wall bricks are being sent from Berlin starting in May 2009. Their destination: Korea, Cyprus, Yemen and other places where everyday life is characterised by division and border experience. In these places the bricks will become a blank canvas for artists, intellectuals and young people to tackle the “wall” phenomenon.



Also, check out these Web pages on the Festival:



http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/27/5214/72984/travel/How+Berlin+Will+Celebrate+the+%27Fall+of+the+Wall%27s%27+20th+Anniversary



http://www.mauerfall09.de/en/portal/9-november/festival-of-freedom-to-celebrate-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-fall-of-the-berlin-wall.html

Answer 2

The Berlin Wall was erected in the night of August 13, 1961.

It was a weekend and most Berliners slept while the East German government begun to close the border. In the early morning of that Sunday most of the first work was done: the border to West Berlin was closed. The East German troups had begun to tear up streets and to install barbed wire entanglement and fences through Berlin.



The first concrete elements and large square blocks were used first on August 15, 1961. Within the next months the first generation of the Berlin Wall was build up: a wall consisting of concrete elements and square blocks.



A second Wall was build in June 1962 in order to prevent from escaping to the West.

The first Wall was improved during the next years and it's difficult to distinguish between the first and the second generation of the Wall.



These two first generations were removed by the third generation beginning about 1965. The third generation of Wall consisted of concrete slabs between steel girder and concrete posts with a concrete sewage pipe on top of the Wall.



From the year 1975 the third generation of Wall was replaced by the fourth generation. New concrete segements were used which were easy to build up and were more resistant to breakthroughs and to environmental polutions.

Answer 3

i think of you would be able to desire to grant credit to Gorbachov. He rose up for the duration of the ranks of the Communist party and led the main dramatic political substitute in the 20 th Century. If it wasn't for Glasnost, the East Germans does not have had the braveness to take to the streets the way they did - and he additionally warned the GDR from using violence against their very own people. He replaced the international yet did no longer incredibly get the credit he deserved. with a bit of luck historic past will choose him for the super guy he's.

Answer 4

heres an idea. LOOK IT UP.go to a library or go on some good websites. jeez no wonder u need ppls answers on here. btws, thats almost like cheating

Answer 5

Google it, I know David Hasslehoff was singing one of his terrible songs on it when they knocked it down.

Answer 6

THE BERLIN WALL WAS BUILT TO RIVAL THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA .