The Berlin Wall

• Built between East and West Berlin.
• People in Communist countries wanted to leave for political and economic reasons (Capitalist countries were much more attractive).
• Great contrast between East and West Berlin.
• West put investment into West Berlin to make East Berlin envious.
• Increasing number of people moving from East to West and not coming back (mostly skilled workers that were important).
• Barbed wire and then wall put up.
• This tells us that:
• Russia is worried about people in Communist section seeing how good it was in Capitalist section and worried about losing qualified people .
• Showed West that Russia was worried about its control and popularity with people.