Why was the Berlin Wall a stabilizing factor in the Cold War?
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A key problem for the Soviets had been the fact that large numbers of people were leaving East Berlin and migrating to the West. This posed a fundamental challenge to Soviet claims that the communist system was superior to the Western capitalist model, particularly given the stark difference between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin. The creation of the Berlin wall put an emphatic stop to the movement of people between East and West Berlin, helping to stabilize a dangerous flashpoint between the USA and the USSR in the process.
600783
German resistance would have collapsed sooner.  The Allies were going for "Unconditional Surrender" no matter who was in charge for the Germans.  The result for the most part would have been the same, probably saving a significant number of lives on both sides. The political climate may have been more friendly between east & west over the next 60 years.  There might not have been the partitioning of Germany the way it was.  And maybe it could have freed up a lot of needed resources to get the Pacific war ended sooner also.
836381
Join the 21st century.  We just knocked down one East-West wall, and we are trying hard to remove the vestigial traces of the cold war in favor of detente and prosperity.  Walls never have worked and never will work to keep out ignorance or progress.  We really need fewer walls and more friends.
317424
The Iron curtain is the isolation imposed by the cold war between URSS and EU after World War II.  The holocaust happened during World War II.  Some concentration camps were in Germany, but ohter were in Austria.  Not to mistake the Iron curtain with the Berlin Wall, although both are symbols of the same political reality.
197788
Simple, the Berlin wall was to keep people IN. This wall is to keep people OUT. Notice that the Great Wall of China was built for such a purpose and it dramatically increased Chinese security for hundreds of years. \n\nThe Latin American immigration crisis must include these items...\n\n1) A wall to prevent further immigration\n2) A guest worker program for those who are here\n3) New national id cards holding electronically encrypted information that must be reconciled against a national database.\n4) Fines or prison time for anyone who employs illegal aliens without proper validation of their identification against new parameters.\n5) Reform of judicial system to handle immigration cases more efficiently. An immigration court would be nice...\n6) And structured control of new applicants for the guest worker program so that we get to choose who enters. My votes says that we only favor countries who have signed free trade agreements with the U.S. That way we can favor the Latin American countries who are under NAFTA and CAFTA and we can restrict applicants from countries where the bulk of the population would rather just kill us and take everything we have. The Hispanics are seen as GREAT workers and would be quite welcome if they were legal. \n\nBut those who come from cultures where women are oppressed, where people cannot individually choose their religion, opposition to the basic free market principles that made our country wealthy and safe, and believe that violence against our citizens is a cherished avenue to achieving their own political ends are NOT welcome. And those people will try to come just as they went to Europe. They didn't assimilate there and they won't assimilate here. But, the Latin Americans are much safer and are generally not trying to kill us.
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The USSR was bent on world domination, and we had to maintain a balance of power or face nuclear war.The arms race and space programs and Vietnam,Korea were results. Domestically, anti war and civil rights issues nearly split the country.
143182
The Allies won WW II because of the armies of the Soviet Union.  Operation Barbarrossa decided the fate of the Second World War.
424743
It dramatically decreased the chance of total nuclear annihilation, because many of  the thousands of nukes that the Soviets controlled were decommissioned.   It probably increased the chances of a nuclear terrorist attack, because a number of nukes, nuclear material, and Soviet Nuclear Scientists were stolen, sold, or hired on the black market.   This allowed a group with 20-40 million dollars to become a limited nuclear power.   Don't worry about the country with 500 nuclear weapons.  Just worry about the guy who wants just one.
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The Cold War in the 1950s was marked by a policy of containment adopted by the United States as well as a policy of Peaceful Coexistence adopted in the wake of the death of Stalin by the USSR under Kruschev. Both policies led to a consolidation of spheres of interest and boundaries, with the aim of minimizing the risk of the outbreak of another major war, after the example that had been set up the Korean War.
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"Cold War" is an informal expression that, by its definition, does not refer to a period of armed conflict.  Therefore, there is no clear date on which it ended.  Historians typically choose dates that "seem best" to them in terms of saying when the period of US-Soviet confrontation came to an end.  Was it when Solidarity won Polish elections?  Was it when the Berlin Wall came down?  When the Romanians executed their dictator?  When the USSR became the CIS?  Some other event?  Those are dates you can find online, with a little effort.  Deciding which one was when the Cold War ended is going to be up to you.
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Because it was the symbol of the separation bet wen the part of the world that was influenced by Uni Soviet and U.S. As you may have learned that the western part of Germany was influenced by the U.S. when the eastern part was influenced by the Uni Soviet. The Berlin wall was bet wen these two powers and separate them into two parts of the world. which is basically what the cold war is all about:separating the world into two equal powers. Black and White. Yin Yang. Whatever they might call it.
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well, there were two parts of it.\nthe first, of course, was nuclear technology. at first, the USA was the only one that had atomic bombs. but during the 1940s, Stalin infiltrated FDR's staff and bought the technology. when Russia had atomic bombs, they threatened to use them on us.\nthe other half was what happened to Europe.  by the time the war was over, basically every country in Europe was broke and desolate. so the two countries left standing, USA and Russia. USA and England wanted to push democracy, Russia wanted to expand communism. this lead to pretty much a global fight on how to bring back Europe. when the two sides started fighting, nuclear bombs became trump card.
384114
I believe Berlin was located in Germany at the time. A decade later, the Berlin Wall was built to prevent East German's from escaping into West Germany.
324319
They shouldn't have been so lax in dealing with the USSR.  An extra involvement in a foreign war; such as a well-placed nuke on the Kremlin, would have helped end the cold war and negated the modern influx of communism and socialism into Western Europe.
585817
Basically to take Europe out of the equation in case of Nuclear war.\n\nReally though the Soviet Union was in such deep financial chaos that they could no longer afford the development and upkeep of targeting nukes on Europe.  \n\nSo taking them off the table was mostly a financial decision.\n\nI should add that there was also a growing emphasis on Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles.  They were easier to hide and defend.
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B) and D) and my factual reasoning:\n\nHitler had argued in Mein Kampf of the necessity of acquiring new territory for German settlement (Lebensraum) in Eastern Europe. \n\nTo hardline Nazis in Berlin, the war against the Soviet Union was one of a struggle of Fascism against Communism, and the Aryan race against the "inferior" Slavic race.
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Marshall Plan was a catalyst that stimulated many countries in the Soviet Unions influence to "go west" and choose democracy and capitalism instead of east and accept communism. It showed the economic advantages of it through the aid they received, and worked flawlessly to show up Stalin, and communism, who chose to build a wall instead of trying to improve the part of Germany in their influence, or any other nation. Germany's loans to pay off its war reparations, and by other nations for reconstruction, from US soon became part of the whole foreign policy and American influence ordeal. As now they had ties with US, that allowed it to exert more control over these foreign entities.