THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Improve conditions in East Berlin
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Allowed people to work in the West
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Allow them to leave as they please
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Build a wall to keep people from moving to west Berlin
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Detailed explanation-1: -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.
Detailed explanation-2: -Why was the Berlin Wall built? The Berlin Wall was built by the German Democratic Republic during the Cold War to prevent its population from escaping Soviet-controlled East Berlin to West Berlin, which was controlled by the major Western Allies.
Detailed explanation-3: -After the war, millions of German settlers were forcibly, even violently, expelled and sent back to Germany. Other ethnic Germans, whose families had lived in border regions like the Sudetenland for generations, also fled or were expelled. Allied opinion was divided about these expulsions.