8H+Berlin+Wall

=The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall= __Images__ An East German worker builds a section of the Berlin Wall

Ronald Reagan gives a speech in which he orders that the Berlin Wall be taken down.

__Timeline__ -Winston Churchill at the Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri This quote shows the worries the United States, Great Britain about the iron curtain and the division of Europe. ||
 * 1945 ||||World War II ends. Communist Russia starts to conquer many Eastern European countries. These countries are ruled under Communist U.S.S.R. This conquering of countries causes conflicts between Russia and the United States. ||
 * March 5, 1946 |||| "A shadow has fallen upon the scenes so lately lighted by the Allied victory. . . . From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
 * March 1947 |||| Truman releases the Truman Doctrine. This statement supports the idea of containment. ||
 * June 5 1947 |||| U.S releases Marshall Plan to provide economic aid to rebuild Western Europe after the war. ||
 * April 1947 |||| "Let us not be deceived—today we are in the midst of a cold war." -Bernard Baruch, rich financier, presidential adviser, in a address in April 1947 ||
 * 1948 |||| U.S and Russia clash over U.S.S.R control of Dardanelles Strait in Turkey and Russian power in Iran. Bad moods stay even though Stalin backs down. ||
 * July 24, 1948 |||| Soviet blockade of Berlin begins due to Stalin's feeling of provocation from the West. This causes Truman to begin the Berlin Airlift to supply West Germany with supplies ||
 * April 1949 |||| United States forms NATO to block any of Stalin’s communism threats to Western Europe. ||
 * 1949 |||| Berlin Airlift and blockade end ||
 * 1955 |||| Warsaw Pact formed to counter NATO ||
 * 1961 |||| To separate East and West Germany and for political and economic reasons Stalin builds the Berlin Wall. ||
 * 1980 |||| Ronald Regan says USA will stay firm against the Soviet Union or "Evil Empire" as he says ||
 * 1985 |||| New leader of Soviet Union steps up, Mikhail Gorbachev, towards the end of the Cold War ||
 * 1989|||| Velvet Revolution started in Eastern European countires takes away communism and replaces it with Democracy ||
 * 1989||||Once military forces stop partrolling the wall and European tensions dissolve Germans are able to visit both sides.||

__Cartoon__ __Video Clip__ __Work Cited__ “Cold War”. ABC-Clio American History. 2007.ABC-CLIO. 17 May 2007. www.americanhistory.abc-clio.com

“Down Came the Wall”. United Streaming. 2007. Discovery Education.17 May 2007. [|www.unitedstreaming.com/index.cfm?]