The Berlin Wall
The wall seperated East and West Berlin
Included guard towers along a concrete wall which circumcised a large open area
This was later referred to as teh Death Strip
There were also anti-vehicle trenches, fakir beds and many other defenses
Before the wall was erected, 3.5 million east Germans crossed to West Berlin
From 1961 to 1989 almost all immigration was stopped
Almost 5,000 people tried to jump the wall
Casualties are estimated between 100 and 200
A Fakir Bed is a bed of nails that were positioned on both sides of the "death strip"
In 1989, after a series of radical political changes in Eastern Bloc, things began to change
after weeks of unrest, the East German governments announced on November 9, 1989, that immigration to west Germany and Berlin was permitted
The final piece of the wall was officially removed on October 3, 1990
China was scared of what the USA had done in vietnam
the pile of weapons that they had was alot smaller than the USA
USSR
living conditions were kind of poor because of spending tons of money on weapons at the expense of basic household goods
Aware of the decreasing relationship with China
Knew that USA was trying to improve their relationship with China
USA realized that there were better ways to contain communism that what had been done previously
Was aware of how expensive the cost of weapon production and keeping huge armed forces was
Peaceful relationship with USSR would be beneficial
Salt 1
1969 to 1972
the alternate name for Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement
It stopped the number of balistic missle launchers that already existed
provide for new submarine launched balistic missle launchers
one rule of the treaty required both countries to limit the amount of sites protected by an anti balistic
Salt 2
began in late 1972
created treaty that was not ratified by US Senate
replace the short term agreement with a long term comprehensive Treaty
providing many limits on strategic offensive weapons
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