The city of Berlin itself was divided into East and West. West Berlin, occupied by British, French and US forces, was supported by the Federal Republic of Germany, (FRG), commonly known as West Germany. The Soviet Union sponsored the creation of East Germany, including East Berlin, under the German Democratic Republic (DDR). (www.lycos.historic sites:Berlin Wall)

Not long after midnight on August 13, 1961, subway and elevated trains

mysteriously stopped traveling between East and West Berlin. Heavy trucks

rumbled through the quiet night. Jackhammers began to chatter along the border of the Soviet sector of the divided city. Curious onlookers caught glimpses of streets being torn up before the East German police shooed them away. At 1:11A.M., the Warsaw Pact, the organization of Communist Eastern European nations, released an

East Germany also worked to establish a democratic government however, many

-President John F. Kennedy, Berlin, Germany, June 26, 1963

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on the world stage, voicing his concerns about the need for reconstruction of his own country and the world in general. In 1987, he published a book called

its people from escaping its authority, is clearly a sign of a weak government on the

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