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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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