8E+Berlin+Wall

=**The Rise and Fall of the Berlin Wall**=






 * 1945 || World War II ended, and Comunist Russia started conquering eastern European countries and ruling them under the U.S.S.R. or the comunist regime. ||
 * 1946 || An Iron Curtain goes over Eastern Europe, in which the Soviet Union controls ||
 * 1948 || Stalin creates blockade, causing Truman to create airlift to West Germans ||
 * 1961 || Berlin Wall created, seperating east and west Germany ||
 * 1964 || Lyndon B. Johnson increases the amount of soldiers in Vietnam ||
 * 1973 || Richard Nixon pulls out of Vietnam with almost 60,00 americans dead ||
 * 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 || Eastern Europe countries started the Velvet Revolution, that took away the communism, and put in new Democratic offices ||
 * 1989 || Once European conflicts ended, armed forces on both sides stopped manning the wall, enabling parts of the walls destroyed and Germans able to go to both sides once again ||