Berlin Wall
At the end of WWII the allies held the potsdam conference, they split Germany into East and West Germany. In 1949 British France and the U.S combined to create East and West Germany. In West Germany there was market economies and the living conditions were great. East Germany was set communist and had very poor living conditions. In the late 1950's citizens in east Germany were escaping to West Germany. East Germany lost around 3 million people to Berlin. The US.SR constructed the Berlin Wall and on August 12th to the 13th 1961 the Berlin wall was built to keep people out of West Germany. The Berlin wall stretched 100 miles and was built out of fence posts and barbed wire.The final construction of the Berlin wall made it a 12 foot high thick concrete wall. Some people in East Germany tried to scale the wall, some tried to fling rope over and climb, some rammed it with trucks, and one group made it over because they made a hot air balloon and flew over.The fall of the Berlin wall began when the Soviet Union fell apart so they decided to get rid of the wall.