The Berlin Wall divided the East and West of Berlin, physically and ideologically, from 1961 to 1989. The main reason as to why they built the wall was to stop East Germans from escaping and travelling to the West.
Portrait of Henry VIII
The Berlin Wall divided the East and West of Berlin, physically and ideologically, from 1961 to 1989. The main reason as to why they built the wall was to stop East Germans from escaping and travelling to the West. It was a boundary between communism and capitalism.
JFK Ich Bin Ein Berliner Speech
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John F Kennedy Speech
US president John F Kennedy delivered the best-known anti-communist speech on June 26, 1963, in West Berlin. The president electrified the crowd as he paid tribute to Berliners and their hope for freedom. Ending his speech with "Ich bin ein Berliner," meaning 'I am a Berliner.'
Consequences
Many problems and faults were brought after the division of the East and West of Berlin. The 'Iron Curtain' caused families having to split, jobs being lost and children not being able to go to schools on the other side. Many deaths were added to the mixture of problems as many citizens of the East of Berlin attempted to climb the wall. This caused many to dislike The Berlin Wall.
Flatford Mill
Flatford Mill (Scene on a Navigable River) is an oil painting by English artist John Constable, painted in 1816. It is Constable's largest exhibition canvas to be painted mainly outdoors, the first of his large "six-foot" paintings [more]
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
The Hireling Shepherd
This is a painting by William Holman Hunt, a leading British Pre-Raphaelite.
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
