The Fall of the Berlin Wall,1989

Why was the Berlin Wall Built?

East vs. West Germany

GDR = German Democratic Republic FRG = Federal Republic

of Germany

East vs. West Berlin (Post WWII)

Allied Forces: France Britain The United States

The Soviet Union

WEST

EAST

Communism

Democracy

Economy

•  Soviets felt the need to maintain communist control

•  Workers crossing between borders

•  Resolution: building of the Berlin Wall in 1961

•  Barrier and a symbol of East/West divide

The End

•  November 9, 1989

•  Reunification of Germany

•  End of the Cold War

The Gulf War, 1990-1991 Pages 100-101 in Creating Canada

President Saddam Hussein

Operation Desert Storm

•  Iraq invading Kuwait

•  Canada and the U.N.

•  3,837 Canadian men and 237 Canadian women served in armed conflict

•  No Canadian causalities

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