The Berlin Wall Research Paper

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During the Cold War, the Soviet build Berlin Wall to restricts people especially professionals from getting out of Eastern Berlin. According to the history website, “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.” This shows the representation of the Cold War. This wall reduced the number of citizens escape and increase death of the people who escaped because later the Soviet builds the wall, they also put ‘barbed wire’ and the additional of ‘electrified fences.’Many historians called the Cold War as ‘The Atomic Age’ because even though many people died during this war, this war was mostly about arms racing. The Berlin got lifted when the Soviet

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