WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Soviet Union and the United States divided Berlin in two parts after the war. The Soviet Union was trying to put people back to work by building the Berlin Wall.

Detailed explanation-2: -Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other noncommunist areas.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Iron Curtain was a barrier that divided capitalist and communist nations. This barrier was not physical but instead economic and political. On one side of the curtain, most countries were communist, and on the other side, most were capitalist.

Detailed explanation-4: -dividing line along the 17th parallel. The idea that if one country falls to communism, all countries in that region will fall. (1962) Two week standoff between the USSR and the USA that occurred when Soviet nuclear weapons were sent to Cuba; the UN had to intervene to avoid nuclear war.

Detailed explanation-5: -For the next 28 years, the heavily fortified Berlin Wall stood as the most tangible symbol of the Cold War-a literal “iron curtain” dividing Europe. The end of World War II in 1945 saw Germany divided into four Allied occupation zones.