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.
Answer:On September 6, 1870, Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming became the first woman to cast a vote in a general election. In 1890, Wyoming, with a Republican governor and Democratic legislature, insisted it would not accept statehood without keeping women's suffrage.
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The correct answer for 2 is true. The land where the Natives lived belonged to France. Frenchmen didn't bother them and kept the relations positive. When France lost and Britain got the territories, British soldiers inhabited the land and started bothering the locals which rose tensions.
The correct answer for 3 is false. The Native American tribes that worked together failed to kick out the British armies from the lands. However, they did compel them to change their policies regarding trade and behavior on the lands which means that it was a sort of a stale mate.
The correct answer for 4 is true. The proclamation forbade the colonists from going westwards. This caused a lot of anger because they wanted to spread more westwards since they wanted more land for themselves. This proclamation was important because it established borders for living in the colonies.
The correct answer for 5 is false. The colonists were unhappy. They wanted to go more westwards and get new land and establish new colonies. They believed that the king had no right to restrict their movement since it was forbidden by law to go westwards.
The question ask to choose among the following choices that is not a difference between schools in Puerto Rico and schools in Los Estados Unidos. Base on the question, the possible answer would be the last choice that states "Students study both spanish and english". I hope this would help
