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Created by Konrad O'Neill
about 11 years ago
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Question | Answer |
People were leaving Soviet controlled countries to the West via West Berlin. They fled because they were dissatisfied with the economical and political conditions | Khrushchev suggested that 4 powers should leave Berlin. Talks were held but USSR announced an american U2 spy plane had been shot down and talks dissolved From then on relation soured |
Brain drain would cripple E.Germany's economy so something had to be done On one day the entire maths department of the uni of Leipzig vanished | 13/9/61 K closed the border between E+W.Berlin police placed barbed wire around the 50km stretch as the day progressed a wall was under construction, the following day it was completed |
Peace was maintained but at a price Families were split up by the wall and strict travel restrictions | Flow of refugees stopped and the economic crisis was slowly evaporating |
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