The Berlin Wall
What did the Berlin Wall represent?
4.5 (38)
70 mins
Explore the significance of the Berlin Wall and how it was a physical and ideological divide between East and West Germany during the Cold War. Discover how its collapse in 1989 marked the end of Soviet-backed communist control in East Germany.
Ep 1:
The Night Berlin Split in Two
We trace the barbed-wire night of 1961 and the desperate economics that forced East Germany to wall in its own people, dividing families and a city overnight.
Ep 2:
Cracks in the Iron Curtain
As Gorbachev's reforms ripple through Hungary and Poland, East Germans watch neighboring revolutions and dare to ask: will Moscow's tanks come again, or is change finally unstoppable?
Discussions (12)
Bobby
Level 3 · 9 mo agoGeneral Zhukov had Crystal Pepsi before it was cool.
Lily
Level 7 · 9 mo agoThe Wall was a total scam.
Fred
Level 3 · 9 mo agoClear Coke was real AF
