Why did they tear down the berlin wall?
Why? Germany was split into four sectors-the Soveit, American, French, and English after WWII. Germany had fallen apart. The Soviets ran their sector as a communist one. The wall was built in 1961 to prevent the Soveits’ people in the east from escaping into the West which was better. People still tried to get over. They dug tunnels and jumperd out of windows. People died trying to cross-a total of 239 deaths from the wall. There were about 5000 escapes. Ronald Reagan (US President from 1981-1989) had came over to the Brandenburg gate to give a speech to the Soveit Leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the West Berliners. East Berliners heard the speech through their radioes. He wanted the wall down since their was tension between the US and USSR with the Space Race and Nuclear Weapons that had happened in the past. He wanted to be on better terms with the Soveits and realized the struggle of the people. He wanted Germany reunified. And later in 1989 things heated up. East Berliners held demo
