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The Berlin border is closed between East and West Berlin and barriers are built.
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Brandenburg Gate is closed
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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.
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The barbed wire barrier is removed and replaced with a wall of concrete blocks two meters high.
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For West Berlin citizens crossing points are closed
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To prevent escapes to the West a second Wall is built and first wall is improved,
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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.
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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."
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An agreement is signed, on a limited basis, allowing West Berliners to visit their relatives in East Berlin.
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Martin L. King is invited to give a speech in West Berlin
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A third wall is put up
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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.
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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.
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The Basic Treaty is signed for both states to start developing normal relations on the basis of equality.
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East and West Germany establish formal diplomatic ties
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It is stressed to the soldiers to use their weapon when anyone tries crossing the boarder.
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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.
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US president visits Berlin wall.
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West Berliners had boycotted and bankrupted the system.
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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.
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President Ronald Reagan demands the Berlin is taken down.
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The wall symbolized the lack of freedom under communism.
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No more people are being killed for crossing the wall.
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Hungary removes its border restrictions with Austria.
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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.