Inception Of The Berlin Wall Report

Running Head: BERLIN WALL 1
Berlin Wall
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THE BERLIN WALL
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The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall by Frederick Taylor tells the story and occurrences since the inception of
the Berlin Wall until its ultimate fall (Baker, 1993). It gives an account of each side and the parts
they played in its construction, existence and finally its destruction. The author's main debate is
that the stability of the whole of Europe depended on the ability of Germany to unite as one
(Baker, 1993). Each side, East Germany and West Germany were satisfied to let the wall stand.
Western administrations protested against the Iron Curtain but did little to ease the burden on
their citizens living in Germany.
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The author starts with a depiction of the background of Germany post World War II and
in particular, occurrences that shaped and led to the division of Germany (Ahlfeldt et al., 2015).
The Soviets got to Berlin first, in 1945 (Ahlfeldt et al., 2017). Despite this early lead, they were
unable to close out and secure Berlin. Berlin, after the World War II was inhabited by the Soviet
Union, France and both the United States and Kingdom.
The East German economy was disastrous. Its leader, Walter Ulbricht, and Nikita
Khrushchev, the Soviet Union leader, aimed at steady the economy of the East but the two
leaders did not always see each other eye to eye. East Germans, eager for good jobs and freedom
were fleeing to West through Berlin (Sonnevend, 2016). The West’s answer to this emerging
problem was to create the iron curtain to curtail this trend. Its effects were unfathomable.
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Frederick Taylor then talks of the Berlin airlift. The Berlin Airlift was the initial time
Berlin was blocked off from the West and the Allies’ efforts to provide necessities to Berlin and
its people. The Berlin Airlift failed and this led to the necessity to invent a permanent method of