THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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To keep people from using West Berlin to leave East Germany .
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To keep people from West Germany coming into East Germany .
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As a fortification to keep enemies out of the city.
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All of the above.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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: -During the 1980s, only about 1% of those who left East Germany did so by escaping across the border. Escapees had various motives for attempting to flee East Germany. The vast majority had an essentially economic motive: they wished to improve their living conditions and opportunities in the West.
Detailed explanation-4: -Half of the city-West Berlin-was actually part of West Germany. Many East Germans did not want to live in a communist country and crossed into West Berlin, where they could either settle or find transportation to West Germany and beyond. By 1961, four million East Germans had moved west.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Germany from 1961 to 1989. Constructed by the German Democratic Republic (GDR, East Germany) starting on August 13, 1961, the Wall completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin until government officials opened it in November 1989.