What was the Soviet Union's primary purpose in building the Berlin Wall?

A) to create a symbol of the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe

B) to protect East Germany from US attacks

C) to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany

D) to provide construction work to the laborers in East Berlin

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Freddy Morris

15 September, 13:25

What was the Soviet Union's primary purpose in building the Berlin Wall?

A) to create a symbol of the boundary between Eastern and Western Europe

B) to protect East Germany from US attacks

C) to prevent East Germans from escaping to West Germany

D) to provide construction work to the laborers in East Berlin

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Mercedes Richardson · Answer 1

The Berlin Wall was built to divide communist East Germany from democratic West Germany and to keep East Germans from escaping to West Germany. After World War II, defeated Germany was divided into four zones, each occupied by Allied forces: the United States, France, Great Britain and the Soviet Union. Tension between the communist territory and the democratic territories mounted, and the Berlin Wall was built to separate them.