“Erected in the dead of night on August 13, 1961, the Berlin Wall was a physical division between West Berlin and East Germany in order to keep East Germans from fleeing to the West.” (Rise and Fall of…). The Berlin Wall or Berliner Mauer, in German, was one of the most obvious and literal signs of the cold war between the United States and the Soviets. A divided Berlin was the outcome of WWII, when the victorious allies split it into four parts. Half of the city was in the control of the USSR, a…
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