COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Communism
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Democracy
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Neither
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Both
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall, ” or “antifascist bulwark, ” between East and West Berlin.
Detailed explanation-3: -For Western Europeans, the fall of the Berlin Wall symbolises a reunification of Germany and an end to communist regimes in the region. In the minds of Central and Eastern Europeans, the year 1989 is more associated with domestic events in individual countries.