Creation of the Berlin Wall

~ The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West.

~ The building of the Berlin Wall, and what the Berlin Wall symbolised, summed up what the Cold War represented to most people, a clash between good and evil.

~The Berlin Wall was to get the attention of a president Kennedy who was to visit the Wall and who was to find his place in History with the part he played in the Cuban Missile Crisis.