THE COLD WAR 1950 1973
THE COLD WAR
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They built it to keep Soviet people from going to Western Europe.
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They built it to try to keep East Germans from going to West Germany.
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The Soviet Union and the United States divided Berlin in two parts after the war.
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The Soviet Union was trying to put people back to work by building the Berlin Wall.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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. It divided the city of Berlin into two physically and ideologically contrasting zones.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -Postwar Division of Germany Led by Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union wanted to punish Germany economically, forcing the country to pay war reparations and contribute its industrial technology to help postwar Soviet recovery.