The Berlin Wall
On June 23rd, 1948 Berlin was divided into two currency zones, the very next day Germany started to construct a blockade that divide the West and East of Germany. Berlin had a provisional government also known as the Allied Control Council. In 1957 a law was established that if anyone were to leave the Eastern Side of Germany they would have to go to prison for three years.
On August 13th, 1961 a border that divided Eastern and Western Germany was constructed, and there was no way of going to either side. The East was ruled communism of the Soviet Union and the West was freed from communism and was democratic.
Although the wall was guarded by guards and the consequence was to be shot down, people did cross the Berlin Wall and not everyone liked it. The people in the East wanted to be a part of the Democratic Party.
In 1987 the President of the United States at the time, Ronald Reagan told the leader of the Soviet Union to tear it down but the wall wouldn’t be destroyed until two years later on November 9th, 1989. The Berlin Wall lasted approximately twenty years.