THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
JOHN F KENNEDY AND THE COLD WAR
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Fidel Castro
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Nikita Khrushchev
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John F. Kennedy
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Lyndon B. Johnson
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Detailed explanation-1: -Conceived by the East German administration of Walter Ulbricht and approved by Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev the wall was a long separation barrier between West Berlin and East Germany (the German Democratic Republic), which closed the border between East and West Berlin for a period of 28 years.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (15 April [O.S. 3 April] 1894 – 11 September 1971) was the First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1953 to 1964 and chairman of the country’s Council of Ministers from 1958 to 1964.
Detailed explanation-3: -On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall, ” or “antifascist bulwark, ” between East and West Berlin.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Berlin Wall, built in 1961, physically separated West Berlin from its East Berlin and East German surroundings until it fell in 1989.
Detailed explanation-5: -Its territory was administered and occupied by Soviet forces following the surrender of Nazi Germany after World War II, when the Potsdam Agreement established the Soviet occupation zone, bounded on the east by the Oder–Neisse line.