COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Iron Curtain
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Bay of Pigs
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Berlin Wall
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Great Wall of China
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Detailed explanation-1: -That night, Premier Khrushchev gave the East German government permission to stop the flow of emigrants by closing its border for good.
Detailed explanation-2: -On November 10, 1958, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev delivered a speech in which he demanded that the Western powers of the United States, Great Britain and France pull their forces out of West Berlin within six months.
Detailed explanation-3: -To halt the exodus to the West, Soviet leader Nikita Khruschev recommended to East Germany that it close off access between East and West Berlin. On the night of August 12-13, 1961, East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin.
Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. The Berlin Wall was erected in the dead of night and for 28 years kept East Germans from fleeing to the West.