COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Berlin Wall
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Cold War
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Warsaw Pact
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Iron Curtain
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Detailed explanation-1: -Berlin Wall, German Berliner Mauer, barrier that surrounded West Berlin and prevented access to it from East Berlin and adjacent areas of East Germany during the period from 1961 to 1989.
Detailed explanation-2: -The wall, which stood between 1961 to 1989, came to symbolize the ‘Iron Curtain’ – the ideological split between East and West – that existed across Europe and between the two superpowers, the US and the Soviet Union, and their allies, during the Cold War.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Berlin Wall: 1961-1989 The construction of the Berlin Wall did stop the flood of refugees from East to West, and it did defuse the crisis over Berlin.
Detailed explanation-4: -At first barbed wire was used to separate East from West Berlin, but over time this was replaced by concrete slabs and a deadly no man’s land that became known as the Berlin Wall.
Detailed explanation-5: -Relic boundaries are boundaries that used to exist and can still be detected on the landscape, like the Great Wall of China and the Berlin Wall.