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Shortly after midnight on this day in 1961, East German soldiers begin laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section of the city.
After World War II, defeated Germany was divided into Soviet, American, British and French zones of occupation. The city of Berlin, though technically part of the Soviet zone, was also split, with the Soviets taking the eastern part of the city. After a massive Allied airlift in June 1948 foiled a Soviet attempt to blockade West Berlin, the eastern section was drawn even more tightly into the Soviet fold. Over the next 12 years, cut off from its western counterpart and basically reduced to a Soviet satellite, East Germany saw between 2.5 million and 3 million of its citizens head to West Germany in search of better opportunities. By 1961, some 1,000 East Germans–including many skilled laborers, professionals and intellectuals–were leaving every day.
In August, Walter Ulbricht, the Communist leader of East Germany, got the go-ahead from Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev to begin the sealing off of all access between East and West Berlin. Soldiers began the work over the night of August 12-13, laying more than 100 miles of barbed wire slightly inside the East Berlin border. The wire was soon replaced by a six-foot-high, 96-mile-long wall of concrete blocks, complete with guard towers, machine gun posts and searchlights. East German officers known as Volkspolizei (“Volpos”) patrolled the Berlin Wall day and night.
Many Berlin residents on that first morning found themselves suddenly cut off from friends or family members in the other half of the city. Led by their mayor, Willi Brandt, West Berliners demonstrated against the wall, as Brandt criticized Western democracies, particularly the United States, for failing to take a stand against it. President John F. Kennedy had earlier said publicly that the United States could only really help West Berliners and West Germans, and that any kind of action on behalf of East Germans would only result in failure.
The answer is A. Lower income potential
It cannot be be because it does not make sense earning money is a good thing not a bad thing on the job training would also not be the correct answer because although it would be a bit of a process it’s not as bad is going to college For training in fact it would actually make it easier end it is not the cost of tuition because you’d be working instead of going to college so you wouldn’t have a tuition
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C is the correct option.
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Napoleon Bonaparte was a french military leader, He conquered almost the whole of Europe in the Early Nineteenth Century. Conquest of Europe by him spread the ideas of the french revolution throughout Europe. The territories conquered by him had Versions of Napoleonic Code imposed on them which later formed the legal basis of European law today. The ideas of equality which was codified were also accepted by his opponents because they believed if they wanted to win they will have to create a strong state just like France.
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The 300,000-year-old bones and stone tools were discovered in a surprising place and could revise the history of our species
By Ed Yong
