COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Iron curtain
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Great Wall
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Berlin Wall
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SALT 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 West Berlin city government sometimes referred to it as the “Wall of Shame", a term coined by mayor Willy Brandt in reference to the Wall’s restriction on freedom of movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Berlin Wall: The Partitioning of Berlin They split the defeated nation into four “allied occupation zones”: The eastern part of the country went to the Soviet Union, while the western part went to the United States, Great Britain and (eventually) France.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Berlin Wall was not one wall, but two. Measuring 155 kilometres (96 miles) long and four metres (13 feet) tall, these walls were separated by a heavily guarded, mined corridor of land known as the ‘death strip’.