2009年7月23日木曜日

The Berlin Wall













I am going to explain about location and history of The Berlin Wall.
First, I explain about the location. The Berlin Wall was in Berlin. Berlin was in East Germany and it was separated by west and east. So The Berlin Wall was not on the borderline between East Berlin and West Berlin but surrounded West Berlin in East Germany.

Next, I tell you about the history. The Berlin Wall is a wall that separates East Germany and West Berlin from 1961 to 1989.
After World WarⅡ,Germany was divided into West Germany and East Germany .Berlin was also divided into west and east.
In East Berlin, the Soviet Union which took East Germany was strict with workers, so there were many people who migrated from East Berlin to West Berlin.
It was bad for the Soviet Union so East Germany made the Berlin Wall so that people could not escape from East Berlin to West Berlin. It was founded inside of East Germany.

While the wall existed, people who tried to get over the wall were killed by border security guards in East Germany.

People could leave East Germany by way of Hungary because of picnic affair which happened on August 19th in 1989.
The government of East Germany made a bill and passed it so that people could not leave East Germany but it went wrong by mistake. Because of that, The Berlin Wall lost its meaning.
Next morning, the wall was broken by Berlin citizens. After that, East Germany removed the wall.