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Revision tip and answer preparation
Revision tip
- Question
To help you revise this section, try to think of three ways that the Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Answer
- It was a concrete version of the Iron Curtain.
- It symbolised the divided world.
- It showed that the difference was a real-life physical division.
- It showed that the difference was a military confrontation.
- It was a concrete symbol of the ideological divisions between the "free world" and the "communist world".
- It was concrete proof that capitalists could never work with communists.
Answer preparation
As part of your revision, think about the arguments and facts you would use to explain:
- Why the Berlin Wall was built.
- What the Berlin Wall tells us about the nature of the Cold War in the 1960s.
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