berlin+wall

The Berlin wall Ricardo

August 13, I was in my room sleeping and then i heard people working loudly outside my house and i got up and i looked out the window. And I saw people working on some thing a they had concrete in big barrels and they were digging trenches to pour all the concrete in them. i think ill find out in a couple of days but im going to go to bed.

August 17, four days later i find out what there doing there were making a wall they were making it because they wanted to separate Berlin from the places surrounding them.

September 1, the wall has been up for at least a half a month and i think the wall should not be up because it will ruin the economy because my moms house they have a farm its ruining the economy and

September 19. I heard that there were at least 5,000 people that escaped from the Berlin people who got and 136 people died.

On August 23, 1989 the wall was torn down and there was a crowd of people waiting and they were happy that it came down. the wall was up for at least 7 years. guards were guarding the towers and they were told to kill anyone who came close facts

4.It consisted of concrete slabs reaching nearly 12-feet high (3.6 m) and 4-feet wide (1.2 m)
5.The Berlin Wall was eventually chipped away, into smaller pieces

6.After the Berlin Wall came down, East and West Germany reunified into a single German state on October 3, 1990.

7.The Berlin Wall was took in down in the dead of night and it was up for 28 years and kept East Germans from fleeing to the West. 