With reference to the Cold War history, the easiest point to understand is the fall of the Berlin Wall before realizing that it was the turning point between the war and a new world order. But one has to realize that the decomposition of the mechanisms of the Cold War were not caused solely by the Tearing Down of the Berlin Wall.
M Edwin H Reeder
Beitrag dazu zum Verständnis der Bedeutung der Berliner Mauer
The Berlin Wall, put up by East Germany in 1961, became barrier in physical and in political terms between East and West Berlin. It was an emblem that represented East that was a communistic nation and West which was a democratic and capitalistic nation. Quite often the Berlin Wall is defined as embodying the Cold War in a way.
Seems to have divided the families, friends, and communities for nearly three decades. Its presence was the symbol of struggle or rivalry between the eastern and western countries continuously. But it is also necessary to underline that destruction of the Berlin wall was not the main reason to stop the Cold War.
: These and other factors led to the end of the cold war, the movement away from conflict in the suburbs of someone’s capital to conflict and war, to confrontation between whole societies.
1. Soviet pressures
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Another main cause of the termination of the cold was the pressure exerted within the Soviet state. Mr. Mikhail Gorbachev, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of Soviet Union, made important changes glasnost and perestroika in middle of 1980s.
These changes were intended for solving the stagnation of economy and political oppression inside the USSR. They left an ideology of optimism and openness that contributed to their doom, the obliteration of the Soviet Union. It is on this basis that internal changes in the Soviet Union were instrumental in the ending on the Cold War.
2. Economic Difficulties Experienced by the Soviet Union
The Soviet economy stood before a number of serious problems in the 1980s. The centrally planned economy lacked the ability to cope with the emerging market- determined economies of the west. Also, high military expenditures in addition to poor economic planning upset the resource utilization and retarded growth in the USSR economy.
The economic problems experienced in the Soviet oppress sized the Soviets capabilities, the economy could not sustain the arms race or finance the satellite states. They contributed greatly to the ending of the Cold War period since it would have been impossible to cope with them.
3. International diplomacy
Other diplomatic policies that played a role to bring about the Cold War include; The United States at the time under President Reagan sought to adopt a policy of rapid military build up and Anthynization of the Soviet Union.
But it should also be noted that Reagan met Gorbachev in diplomacy, and they signed other significant treaties concerning arms such as the INF Treaty. These valuable diplomatic initiatives were apparently directed at easing the thaw between both super powers and bringing the countries closer to the much desired era of the end of the cold war.
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
Now let’s look at how the fall of the Berlin wall fit into the post Cold War narrative of the time.
The event of the Berlin Wall on the November 9, 1989 can be said that was a very important moment. It marked a new important era in the setting of relations of Europe showing the onset of the reunification of Germany. The first, the rather shocking scenes of people axing the wall have become the universally symbolic meaning of freedom and the end of Cold War.
It should be noted, though, that the changes which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall were not the result of institutional factors. It was due to internal restructuring of sociology in the Soviet Union, problems of the Soviet economy and diplomacy between the two super powers.
In Conclusion
Thus the collapse of the Berlin wall was certainly one of the major events that marked this form of conflict. However, it is good to remember that it wasn’t the single reason that brought an end to cold war between the US and the USSR.
The factors arising from inside the Soviet Union, issues concerning the Soviet’s economy and the diplomacy were causal in the bringing of the Cold War to a close. They can be illustrated by such a phenomenon as the demolition of the Berlin Wall that took place at that time.
The Cold War concluded in a similar manner being a gradual public process that cannot be strictly defined by a range of specific causes and conditions. Awareness of these factors offers another angle to thinking about the event in the battle for history in the fall of the Berlin Wall.