COLD WAR ERA
IMPACT OF COLD WAR
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They built it to keep Soviet people from going to Western Europe.
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They built it to try to keep East Germans from going to West Germany.
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The Soviet Union and the United States divided Berlin in two parts after the war.
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The Soviet Union was trying to put people back to work by building the Berlin Wall.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why was the Berlin Wall built? 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-2: -The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.
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.