HISTORY
THE COLD WAR ERA
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Question
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It was a metaphor for the divide between communists and democracies.
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It was built to prevent East Berliners from traveling to West Berlin.
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It was built to force West Berlin to become part of the Soviet Union.
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It was built to force the U.S. to end the Truman Doctrine.
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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: -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-3: -The East German government claimed the wall was an ‘anti-fascist protection barrier’ (antifaschistischer Schutzwall) intended to dissuade aggression from the West, despite the fact that all the wall’s defences pointed inward to East German territory. This view was viewed with scepticism even in East Germany.