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august 13, 1961
The Berlin border is closed between East and West Berlin and barriers are built. -
august 14, 1961
Brandenburg Gate is closed -
august 15, 1961
For West Berlin citizens all crossing points are closed. With the border closing East Germans tried escaping on August 15. There is photographs of people leaping over the barbed-wire barrier to freedom. -
august 16, 1961
The barbed wire barrier is removed and replaced with a wall of concrete blocks two meters high. -
august 26,1961
For West Berlin citizens crossing points are closed -
june 1962
To prevent escapes to the West a second Wall is built and first wall is improved, -
august 17, 1962
An 18yr old bricklayer from East Berlin was shot and left to bleed to death. People from West Berlin tried to help him but was stopped at gunpoint. -
june 26, 1963
There was a speech made by John F. Kennedy in Schoneber City Hall. "Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free." -
december 17, 1963
An agreement is signed, on a limited basis, allowing West Berliners to visit their relatives in East Berlin. -
1964
Martin L. King is invited to give a speech in West Berlin -
1965
A third wall is put up -
september 3, 1971
An agreement, Four Power's Agreement, is signed on December 17 between East and West Germany making it easier to travel to and from Berlin. -
may 1972
The Transit Agreement is made for the matters raised in the Four Power Agreement and the rights of citizens to visit the FRG, but only in cases of family emergency. -
december 1972
The Basic Treaty is signed for both states to start developing normal relations on the basis of equality. -
may 1973
East and West Germany establish formal diplomatic ties -
october 1, 1973
It is stressed to the soldiers to use their weapon when anyone tries crossing the boarder. -
1975-1976
They updated the wall. Each section was 3.60 meters high and 1.20 meters wide and was topped off by a smooth concrete pipe 40 centimeters in diameter. There were still people trying to escape, meaning East German authorities increase their control of the border structures. -
june 11, 1982
US president visits Berlin wall. -
january 9, 1984
West Berliners had boycotted and bankrupted the system. -
april 5, 1986
A bomb explosion kills three people, two of them US soldiers, in a Berlin. 230 people, including 50 Americans, are also injured in the terrorist blast. -
june 8, 1987
President Ronald Reagan demands the Berlin is taken down. -
what Berlin wall symbolizes
The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism. -
february 6, 1989
No more people are being killed for crossing the wall. -
august 19, 1989
Hungary removes its border restrictions with Austria. -
september 10,1989
Hungarian government opens border for East German refugees. More than 13,000 East Germans escape into Austria. We've learn from this experience that commies are very bad and that the US rules.